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...once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side, he harmonized in Bowery saloons for handouts, sang in Brooklyn beer halls, church and lodge benefits, finally in vaudeville and the Silver Slipper nightclub with his partners Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton. Connoisseurs of loony comedy have long cherished his phonograph records, "So I Ups To Him," and "I Can Do Widout Broadway But Can Broadway Do Widout...
...schoolhouse was erected, complete with desks and elaborate exhibits made by nimble-fingered children. Each of the Manhattan apartment-dwellers who filed through the building was handed a little pamphlet warning him that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller...
...Satin Slipper, "a, poetic drama of human destiny and spiritual salvation" by Poet Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., was published by Yale University Press. Excerpts from the preface: "Ideas from one end of the world to the other are catching fire like stubble. From Thames to Tiber is heard a great clatter of arms and of hammers in the shipyards. The sea is at one stroke covered with white poppies, the night is plastered all over with Greek letters and algebraic signs. There's dark America yonder like a whale bubbling out of the Ocean! Hark...
...loss of memory suffered when the steel-soled slipper of a girl dancer in the Folies-Bergere flew off and struck him on the forehead, John G. Hopper, explorer, onetime mining partner of Herbert Clark Hoover in Mexico, collected $6,600. He had sued for $12,000, settled out of court...
Whispering reporters discovered that a "spatfall" is a crop of oysters larvae; that the slipper limpet, a small marine gastropod mollusk with only one valve, dearly loves to feed on the tender young of British oysters...