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Last week Mike explained to New York World-Telegram Reporter Douglas Gilbert: "Any way you look at it a fair is a honkytonk. I don't mean a carny show where the play is for the sucker. You can't put a show on like that any more. You got to give. So I'm gonna give." Mike is even going to give Elmer "for free" a peep at the Girl in the Goldfish Globe. After that, Mike thinks, Elmer will not mind giving a little something himself...
...your story Florida, TIME, Feb. 19, you paid nice tribute to Carl Fisher's imagination and to his love of the music of the sand sucker...
...beginning when they reminisce about their late married life, and at the end when battling among a nest of telephones and fast-flying epithets. Yet the well-night perfect script holds up any such points where the movie might sag. Ralph Bellamy is the perfect sucker for the schemes of Grant, and the reporters who are constantly present in the press-room of the jail keep things moving. Fine dramatic relief is provided by the efforts of the condemned murderer and his girl-friend. The purpose of the picture, though, is fun for all, and it achieves that purpose with...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
Asked to write a plea for Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund, crusty old Author Theodore Dreiser replied: "I am not just another American propaganda sucker," added: "If our papers do not lie, and they never lie, it is the Russians who seem to need help against the Finns...