Word: tightwads
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Asked to disclose some of the details and idiosyncrasies of their private lives, the editors sounded off like everyday American citizens. None admits to being a tightwad, but 40% admit that they are definitely extravagant. Five swear they have green eyes. Three out of four say they dress "so-so," and you seldom catch them out in dinner clothes or tails. Like most big city dwellers, 71% pay rent for their homes, and 40% own cars. The rest live in the suburbs and pursue suburban hobbies on their own time. They go to the movies and theater four times...
...richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful of passengers laughing...
...high-pressuring rather than high spirits. It suffers from too many vitamins and not enough food. The book, which tells of an explosive bandleader (Jack Whiting) who impersonates the godfather of a young thing (Susan Miller) with whom he falls in love, is silly, dull, and slower than a tightwad reaching for the check. The gags are frightful. The lyrics are forced. Composer Green (Body & Soul, I'm Yours) has turned out one or two lusty tunes, and gone to town with Steam Is on the Beam, but his score is on the whole unexciting. Finally, though pert, attractive...
...Sandy Jarman had had his way, the U.S. today would be pockmarked with anti-aircraft batteries. For 20 years he has agitated for bigger & better anti-aircraft defenses, has raised lumps on his skull butting against conservative prejudices and tightwad spending policies. He played a big part in developing the uncanny directors that put modern anti-aircraft guns on their targets. In 1939 he took over the command of the Panama Coast Artillery, established in the Canal Zone jungles the best U.S. anti-aircraft system in existence...
...Joseph Stalin, always lavish with Russia's millions in buying tractors, remains a tightwad as to railways, choosing to have hapless Soviet railwaymen shot for "sabotage" rather than buy them good modern rolling stock and signals, remains perhaps the Kremlin's major mystery. Last week Soviet trains were still being hauled by Tsarist locomotives, and after more than three full years of shooting Soviet railwaymen, Dictator Stalin's zealous Comrade Andrey Andreyev had had enough of being Commissar of Railways...