Word: unkindnesses
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There have been occasions in the past when you have dealt with me unkindly, and your unkind cuts have been read by myself and my closest friends and relatives and many of my dearest enemies. It seems a shame, therefore, that when an opportunity arose to write "well done"-or at least "medium well"-you failed...
...named because a birdie is better than par) may do it. In future installments of On Stage, Cartoonist Leonard Starr has his nice but emotional hero ("I'm fighting the elements now!") plagued by offstage intrigue, and trying to figure out which of his official family is leaking unkind gossip to the columnists. Is it the lovable hayseed comedian, Tex McPrairie? Is it the suave announcer? Will Bud ever find out? And if so, will he tell Jack...
...dropped some unsubtle hints that his (and Jack's) archenemy, tough Teamster Jimmy Hoffa, was backing Humphrey. Angrily, Humphrey retorted that "I have not sought Hoffa's support, and he has not offered it. The only time he came into my state recently was to say some unkind things about...
...Slezak made the audience laugh almost every time he opened his mouth, particularly at his first-act entrance, when he was bundled in fluttery finery and carried a small live pig (rubber diapered) under his arm. Whatever critics thought of the rest of the performance, no one had an unkind word for Walter. Said he: "Maybe the Met should apologize to me for the mixed reviews; I came out shining like a rose...
...derided and titillated cafe society in the '20s and '30s, once caused the entire Albuquerque Rotary Club to walk out on him; in Manhattan. Fiske made pretentious women his special target (Queen Anne, Miss Elaine of Boston, Gretchen Goudonofi, Malaga the Grape Girl), but he was also unkind to Marc Antony ("Cleopatra thought this was so swell / She had the Fig Newtons passed around, / Which only gave Marc Antony a case of hiccups / She misconstrued this for emotion...