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Rhubarb over Rose's Spinach...
Regarding your [Oct. 22] review of The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album and the line, "Cartoonist Carl Rose's 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with...
...gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose's "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it") has become a part of the language. The Album proves that, when told right, there is no such thing as a stale joke...
...season's first performance of Faust last week, Met-goers saw how much Director Tudor has accomplished. Even for the enthusiasts (others regard any ballet in opera as sand in the spinach), the answer was: not very much...
...most people who are salaried or paid by the hour, and to housewives stretching the family budget by buying cheap cabbage instead of costly spinach, the steady rise in living costs meant a steady drop in real earnings. But a million wage earners in the mass-production industries-including some 600,000 United Automobile Workers-have their pay hitched to Clague's index and ride up with it. For them, Clague's figures meant a 3?-an-hour pay raise which would cost employers $17 million. Thus the Government, by noting the actuality of inflation, automatically increased...