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...partial return for such cultural legacies as Shakespeare's plays, the British Common Law and fish & chips, the U.S. has transmitted to Britain in recent years a passion for the 100%-American chocolate milk shake and double frosted. Last October, alarmed at this drift toward such dairy delights, Satirist Maurice Lane Norcott attempted to warn readers of the London Daily Mail against the perils involved. Plumbing the darkest depths of his imagination, he envisioned a Hollywood soft drink fountain in the heart of London and called it "Mother Moo-moo's Milk...
Finding for Satirist Norcott, the jury decided that Mother...
...Manhattan's plush Versailles, Nightclub Satirist Kay Thompson solved a problem to her own fans' satisfaction. She likes to do her act in tailored slacks; some of her admirers demanded that she wear a dress. Her compromise solution: a new outfit she described as "pedal pushers surrounded by a split skirt...
Died. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 46, Bengal-born British novelist, critic, political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) ; of tuberculosis; in London. A product of Eton, Orwell became a non-Communist leftist, fought for the Republicans in Spain. He was an independent radical who disliked party labels and instinctively fought all forms of dictatorship. His Animal Farm was a truly aimed, destructive satire on Stalin's Russia. His last book, bestselling Nineteen Eighty-Four, gave a chillingly ugly blueprint of a future slave state...
...signed to a five-year contract with RCA Victor (Sealtest is a co-sponsor), Chicago-born Bachelor Tillstrom is no more able than his fans to explain exactly why his show clicks. "I don't try to be a satirist, because I am not a brilliant wit like Fred Allen,"* he says. "In fact, I think I tend a little to sadness...