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Ever since his birth in the Evening Standard cartoons of David Low, Colonel Blimp has been the gaseous, walrus-mustached symbol of British muddling. Blimp paid reluctant attention to earth-shaking events as he waddled to the insular comfort of his club to find good sherry and claret, a deep leather chair and reassuring words in the London Times. When he spoke it was in gouty grunts, and his favorite words were "Gad, Sir." Usually this expressed his disapproval of anything which might change the way things had always been done and, by Gad, Sir, always would be done. Britons...
Recently in London Breger was introduced to Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, British cartoonist, whose Breger-like sense of simple humor made "Old Bill," a fat, walrus-mustached old British soldier, the most popular comic character of the last war.* Joked Breger to Bairnsfather: "I always wanted to be known as the Bairnsfather of this war. Now I hope you'll be known as the Breger of the last...
Colonel Blimp. No matter how they react to outside critics, none can approach the British themselves at selfcriticism. No one has lampooned the British character so brilliantly as crotchety Cartoonist David Low. Last month Britons chuckled when Low wrote an article summing up the arguments of walrus-mustached Colonel Blimp, whom Low created. Said Blimp...
...Walrus-eyebrowed, cautious Branch Rickey, 60-year-old creator of baseball's farm system and its No. 1 exponent during 22 of the 25 years he ran the St. Louis Cardinals: the general managership of the Brooklyn Dodgers; succeeding extravagant, rollicking Larry MacPhail, his onetime protégé; for a five-year term; at a reported salary of $40,000, plus a bonus. The new Brooklyn boss has never watched a ball game on Sunday...
...found owl, gull, squirrel, seal, walrus, whale, caribou...