Word: wallopings
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...promotion pamphlets, inviting Americans (for $7.50 a year) to "Laugh with the British- at themselves." Editor Edmund Valpy Knox hoped to appeal especially to ex-G.I.s who got acquainted with Britain in World War II. But even for total strangers, he believes that Punch will still pack a wallop. Said Editor Knox: "If you get down to the basic principles of humor, I think you will find that what makes people laugh is the same on both sides of the Atlantic...
...exhibition was in Manhattan but the artist was in Hollywood, and wishing he were somewhere else. In the voluntary torments of Hollywood, Odets had found escape in painting-but his words about it packed more professional wallop than his pictures...
...worked at his painting about seven months. "I interpreted the idea I had in me," he said, "and I did it with lines and colors. I can't do it with words." Yet Deutsch's title, What Atomic War Will Do to You, packed a timely wallop. Some thought it must have been the title that had the winning punch...
...success as he had with his first novel. It is not a theme that even the brashest of moviemakers will rush to handle, and readers who found Don Birnam a sympathetic figure are not likely to have any such fellow feeling for John Grandin. Many readers who got a wallop out of Weekend will have to judge Valor on its literary merit alone, and they will find it medium-to-poor...
...everything was not quite as simple as that. Revaluation had already dealt what might be a knockout wallop to Canada's gold-mining industry, just getting back on its feet from the war slowdown. And it might hit the tourist trade, which annually pours some $150,000,000 into Canada. U.S. tourists will no longer get $1.10 for their U.S. dollars. But if fewer tourists come because of the lost premium, Canada will lose some badly needed dollar exchange...