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...University of Indiana, as handsome, attractive, and possessing the "initiative, ingenuity and abilities that are characteristic of leaders," Thief Conwell seems alternately proud and ashamed of his profession, was probably most sincere when he wrote: "It involves as much hard work as any other business. There is little thrill about it. . . . What the hell could anyone find to like about stealing, working hard all the time, always being likely to land in the can, paying over to the coppers and the fixers everything he gets...
...course the stage is Ed's preference as a dramatic medium. And comedians are his favorite type of actors; comedy is the highest form of acting, so he says, for it's much harder to make an audience laugh than to make it cry or to thrill it. About the cleanliness of humor. Ed was serious, and leaned forward intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion...
...when the distinguished Mr. Luis Firpo visited the U. S., our sports writers not only pronounced his name Furpo,* but also they called him, among other things, an Argentinean. This was encouraging, but it was nothing to the thrill of seeing, on p. 42 of your issue of Oct. 11, the concocted word Argentinean twice repeated...
...Children put pets up for auction, tremblingly saw them sold, burbled as they received them back from laughing purchasers. Lowest price of the day: fifty cents for a mongrel. Highest price of the day: $55 for a pointer. (One dog, however, was sold privately for $250.) Biggest thrill to Auctioneer Kinsey: selling to Radio Announcer Larry Elliot for $7 a dog on which its owner had placed a value...
...song is called "What Will I Do in the Morning." Fats calls it his "nine-dollar" song because he spent that much for the "Scheherazade" album by Rimsky-Korsakoff, from which he has borrowed the theme. He likes college audiences and says that playing for them is "mah greatest thrill...