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...Slick Chicago promoters started a "snowball" campaign by mailing 2,000 crisp dollar bills to "sucker lists" (with an appeal to match the dollar, or better), eventually got back a clear $630,000 for a nonexistent "National Cancer Hospital." The cost of fundraising: $435,000. Another Chicago outfit raised $2,531,000 for the relief of war widows and orphans aided by Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. After fund-raising expenses were deducted, the widows' mite...
...trumpet, "Ha! I like to see the whelps rioting!" New to Jalna is Dilly Warkworth, a charmer from Yorkshire who has come over to snare Renny. New, too, is sinister Mr. Kronk, a rascally stockbroker who finds in brother Eden (the family poet of earlier Jalna books) the very sucker he wants...
...Payne is an ex-pug who gets his first brass-knuckle treatment from fate when an eye injury ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne loses his temper and beats up everybody in sight-a magic Hollywood formula that...
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, a W. C. Fields nightcap, is long, loaded, and likely to leave its imbiber dizzy. In swift succession, Fields falls out of an airplane and into a romance, he rushes an innocent woman to a maternity hospital, and he intimidates every child who comes under his bloodshot eye. The excuse for it all is a bone of a plot which casts him as that improbable character, W. C. Fields. A beery, sneering bum with a face like a malignant baby, Fields pauses only long enough to allow his protege, perennial-adolescent Gloria Jean...
...executive council, then chairman of the committee; he endorsed the World Peace Congress and the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace. Said Shaw: "I joined organizations with words I was interested in, like 'democracy' and 'peace' . . . For a while I was a sucker for signing things ... I wouldn't sign anything today unless I had seven lawyers and this committee's approval...