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Curb Service. In Pompano, Fla., Samuel Bachinger, visiting an insurance broker to pay his automobile insurance premium, glanced out the window, saw a sign blow off the company's building and smack his Oldsmobile, promptly filed a claim...
...Washington newshen bustled up to Vice President Alben Barkley and asked coyly: "Veep, my editor would like to know what La Dame Hadley has that we don't have-except maybe you?" Barkley promptly seized good-looking, thirtyish Ruth Montgomery and bussed her smack on the lips. "There is your answer, kid!" cried the Veep. Chortling, he added: "I'll tell you something you've got that she hasn't got-a husband...
Giotto, says Ortega, was "a painter of solid and independent bodies." Three centuries later, Velasquez emphasized "hollow space"-the area between the eye and the thing seen. In recording only a dazzle of colored lights, the impressionists brought painting smack up to the retina. Picasso carried the same process a step further, painting what was back of the eyeball, inside his head. "[In the Picasso school] the eyes, instead of absorbing things, are converted into projectors of private flora and fauna. Before, the real world drained off into them; now, they are reservoirs of irreality...
...Best comedy bit: as the two nuns whiz through Manhattan in a borrowed jeep, Sister Margaret, the superbly efficient driver, explains to Sister Scholastica : "You'll notice, Sister, that I must signal to make a turn. It is the law." So saying, she makes a snappy U turn smack in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and parks on the curb in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...soul, Frau Amalie Feix, had nursed Kaiser during his illness, had paid hospital and funeral bills. The only valuables he had left behind were three rings. These, Frau Feix thought, rightly belonged to her. She hoped to sell them to make up for her expenses. Frau Feix, however, ran smack up against the Big Four...