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...Britain is sending all aid to Russia short of war."-A bitter London wag...
...symphony orchestras are mostly silent in summer and little Wag ner is played then (except on high-class recorded programs like WQXR). This autumn and winter, there is every likelihood that Reader Hunley will again get his fill of "the greatest dramatic music...
...models (see p. 57). This year the preview was mostly tanks, bomber fuselages, anti-aircraft guns, Army trucks. When, at the end of a six-hour tour of defense production, a Chrysler official sarcastically suggested that the newspapermen might also want to see the new cars, a wag said: "Yeah, we might as well have a look at the by-product...
Cracked a wag: "Changing the name of Piccadilly Circus to Tovarish Square will come next...
Responsible for dreaming up Latitude Zero is a thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit...