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...graduated to burlesque and vaudeville, and now rates tops in the art of making people laugh. He has acted in several movies, his last feature completed about five years ago. He likes Hollywood, but has no special interest there. His ambition, now, is to retire soon, and watch things whizz by from the sidelines...
...occasionally have declined to eat at the same table with the unpolished cameramen. Sports writers he divides into two schools-"Gee Whizz!'' and "Aw Nuts!''-and clearly prefers the latter. Toward press agents, City Editor Walker is tolerant: "Some are so useful and companionable that all newspaper men welcome them and their messages; others are such chiselers and bores that reporters and editors take fright at their approach." Edward L. Bernays, nephew of "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido, Dr. Sigmund Freud," is more important in Stanley Walker's estimation than...
...heard a gun go off and a bullet whizz. I saw Johnny fall. He didn't cry; he just lay there still. I heard Helen cry out: 'Johnny, I'm shot...
...Whizz! Half a dozen French bicycle police scooted up, with mustaches bristling, and surrounded a small, inoffensive U. S. roadster. With screeching breaks a large limousine drew up also, and out hopped several excited agents of the Surete General (Secret Service). Cried a Surete plain clothes man to the occupant of the roadster: "Are you M. Harold Horan, representative of M. Guillaume Randolph Hearst...
When the wires grew quiet, Count Dalla Torre had leisure and opportunity to confer with Monsignors, Cardinals and even the Most Blessed Father respecting the Grand Prix whizz-smash. Two days later the patient, timeless Papacy made its Most High Opinion known through Count Dalla Torre. Printed...