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...cartoonist who helped slay the stereotyped two-line gag was a bald, weedy-looking New Jerseyite named George Price, who last month rounded out his tenth year as one of The New Yorker's most delirious funnymen...
...left the committee room with the same powers over prices he had when he entered: none at all except those he could exercise through OPM's priorities section. But prices were still shooting up and it was still his job to keep them down. He was supposed to slay the dragon of inflation with a rubber sword...
...oldsters who fought the Independents' first battles still slay long-dead dragons with all their old zest. As a prelude to this year's Silver Jubilee, a group of oldtimers, with some 300 friends and admirers, crowded the Independents' old hangout: Petitpas, a venerable Bohemian French restaurant on Manhattan's lower West Side. Their guest of honor was a small, garrulous, bespectacled oldster who had risen from a sickbed to be there. For 24 of its 25 years he had been the Society's president. His name was a famous one in U.S. art: John...
...Bible, Numbers 12:3: "Now the man Moses was very meek. . . ." The correct translation of the original Hebrew is "vexed," which confirms the Old Testament's report that Moses killed an Egyptian for smiting a Hebrew, that after the incident of the golden calf he ordered Hebrews to slay "every man his brother...
...Whistler of Mr. Anthony Eden's mother. Today everyone knows that in 1935 a most important British General Election was won by the Conservatives, partly because "the country" believed Anthony Eden was somehow going to make of the League of Nations a shining sword and with it slay the Dictators...