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What the Carnival proves is that Thurber can be as funny when spoken as when read. There are sketches in it that sag considerably, and ideas that splutter. But its low points are not unlike those in any better-grade intimate revue. What is vastly more important is that its high points-and they are many-are uniquely wonderful...
...military Teletypes that morning began to splutter with the news: North Korean Communists had invaded South Korea. General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo alerted the 24th and the other three U.S. divisions-in Japan to brace themselves for a Communist invasion of the islands. Dean, who had been military governor of South Korea two years earlier, was not surprised when the ill-equipped South Korean constabulary fled before the Communist tanks. Following the first news of the Red advance, Foot Soldier Dean did not think that it could be halted merely by air and sea aid to the South...
...Bangkok's streets the Americans could hear the pop and splutter of firecrackers. Thousands of Siam's Chinese (a vigorous, influential one-sixth of the country's 18 million inhabitants) were celebrating the Chinese New Year-and the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty...
Tulsa (Walter Wanger; Eagle Lion), like a damp fuse, provides a loud bang at the end of a long splutter. Its plot is so rambling and logy with cliches that its climax-a big fire scene-seems wonderfully good...
...nineties, when hansoms jingled along the streets of London and every City clerk wore a silk hat, John was picking pockets in the Strand. King Edward came to the throne, and motors began to splutter in Piccadilly, and John's hands went on sliding into pockets. He thieved all through the four years of the first world war. Dictators rose to power and maps were altered overnight: but John, white-haired and vener able, was still standing with his itch ing fingers among the noise and bustle of the Strand...