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...beer spigot foamed. Another citizen spoke: "It's a phony. Leo's just putting on a big act, but then, ya can't tell . . . maybe he's in love." Like a breath of spring, a faint note of optimism crept in; somebody mentioned that old Hughie Casey had concocted a new and very secret pitch. "Gonna win twenty games, he says." But it was just a breath and it died on the next remark: "What ya been smokin', bud, mario-wanna...
...Brains." Fred's durability as a comedian has not depended solely on the obvious externals of slapstick. His voice, to be sure, sounds as if it might be filing his teeth down as it issues from his spigot mouth. And his face ("the sharpest knife," says Ludwig Bemelmans, "I have ever seen") is rather like a very large red pear that the ants have been at. Fred Allen has other gifts as well. John Steinbeck considers him "unquestionably the best humorist of our time ... a brilliant critic of manners and morals." Jack Benny, his private friend and public enemy...
This gave Pine & Thomas, who call themselves the "Dollar Bills," what few other class-B moviemakers have: a big bank roll and a spigot for their potboilers in Paramount's 11,000 outlets. Result: By last week the Dollar Bills were 1) producing pictures at an average cost of $125,000; grossing an average $600,000 on each, 2) top class-B producers in Hollywood, 3) among the highest paid moviemakers in the business. This year they will collect about $700,000 (before taxes) for their work...
Hard-drinking U.S. synthetic rubber and smokeless powder plants, which in 1944 downed about 90% of the domestic sugar, grain and molasses alcohol supply, have been searching feverishly for more & more industrial alcohol spigots. Almost equally fervent has been the Pacific Northwest's hunt for new industries with postwar prom ise. Last week, in one happy stroke, the Government got its spigot and the North west its new industry...
...that MacArthur struck, and three months to the day after Saipan, Admiral Nimitz' marines attacked, 500 miles due east of Mindanao. Their target: the Palau Archipelago (five principal islands, 100 smaller ones). Palau was the brightest star (and capital) of Japan's vast mandated empire. "The spigot of our oil barrel," the Japs called it, when their ships left port to tap the great oil reserves of the stolen Indies...