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...himself and trying to think of some way by which he could get his trousers away from Abe. "Crusty-faced Democrats never were no good,' he mumbled to himself." Bert gets his pants back at the end of a story which, in the telling, is somehow a quick-sketch portrait, but never a caricature, of the two old vinegar sippers...
Huffed London's Daily Sketch: "It is believed that never before has the Queen been used-especially in a cartoon-to capture votes in an election." The London Times majestically remarked that the Queen's traditional detachment from politics "may not have been fully appreciated in Germany." The British Foreign Office "drew attention" to the matter in an icy phone call to the West German embassy...
Sexy or Sad? Arranger Kay generally starts crawling with anything from a whistled melody to a piano sketch of the show's principal tunes, provided by the composer. Then he finds out how the composer or director wants them done-schmalzy, light or heavy, jolly or sad. It is his responsibility to determine the orchestra composition, which may number from 18 to 35 instruments. For Leonard Bernstein's rowdy On the Town, he accentuated brass and percussion; for last winter's The Happiest Girl in the World, he relied heavily on strings and woodwinds...
...children. One delightful incorrigible, Alvin Lush, will not succumb. As they play and sing through an alphabet song, little Alvin changes the "s" in shore to "w," and, when the children form Mimi's name, old Alvin comes along and turns the "w's" upside down. A hot sketch that Alvin...
...history (and Gibbon's) is that events are shaped by "accidents of personality." Focusing on each country mainly through its key men, he succeeds best with those he knows. He did not interview Adenauer (though he notes later that der Alte "will see almost anybody") and his sketch of "this tenacious old gentleman" seems curiously flimsy. On the other hand, he vividly pictures De Gaulle-whom he interviewed before the return to power-as "gnarled with ego" and "positively lunar," yet possessed of a curious humility that prompted him to answer, in longhand, some 5,000 letters...