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Born. To Red Skelton, 33, slap-happy radio and cinema comic, and ex-Starlet Georgia Maureen Davis, 25, his second wife (No. 1, Edna Borzage, is still his manager): their first child, a girl; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Valentina Marie. Weight...
...broke on a foreign shore that was wholly receptive to their discontent. In 1924, at the death of France's premier novelist, Anatole France, members of the new Surrealist movement had shown their antipathy to the old literary regime by issuing a raucous manifesto entitled Did You Ever Slap A Corpse? At the same time, followers of the deliberately infantile Dada movement were exhibiting "paintings" that showed a decisive break with the old tradition-being composed chiefly of newspaper clippings and shoelaces...
...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...
...steamship Rossia wallowed in the fog at Marseilles' rickety pier G. At her stern, a red flag hung limply in the November drizzle; on her funnel was the hammer and sickle.* Above the monotonous slap of the waves came occasional harsh orders, the melancholy strains of a Russian song...
...about politics. But many a Democrat thought him the only man who could save the party in 1948; many a Republican who could cheer for neither New York's Tom Dewey nor Ohio's Robert Taft began chomping and glaring jealously. Ike might find it hard to slap down the presidential...