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Born. To C. (for Clarence) Elmer Taylor, 44, insurance broker and American Legionnaire, and his wife: a son, their first child; in Chicago. When Elmer Taylor got lost in a parade during the Legion's 1933 Chicago convention, the gathering took as its slogan, watchword, wisecrack and talisman the cry: "Where's Elmer?" Since then Legionnaires often address each other as Elmer. Name of the Taylors' son: Robert Frank...
...condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. The precipitation, 7.26 in., made the wettest early December since 1889, reminded frightened Los Angelenos of their disastrous floods last March (11 in. in five days). Casualty: a ten-year-old boy fell and was knocked unconscious, drowned in a puddle. Wisecrack: Radio Comedian Bob Hope complained that he had been arrested for going through a traffic light before the tide turned...
Promptly Chairman McNinch took to the air over NBC, CBS, MBS networks, denied that his reorganization was a purge. Most emphatically he denied making the wisecrack attributed to him, quoted himself as saying instead that "thousands of men with families are living on salaries smaller than that...
...Choring similarly for Republicans, ex-President Hoover whose speeches this year have been larded with more than one lively wisecrack, retorted: "President Roosevelt said he would not let the people down. The time has come to let them...
...creation of a fake Indian maharaja to help plug an unknown orchestra, is anything but the result of a brilliant inspiration. Fortunately, the action frequently moves at a fast and funny pace; but equally unfortunately, the humor is invariably of the delayed reaction type, where the butt of a wisecrack absorbs it five minutes later. Pat O'Brien, who makes a startling reversal of type by playing the part of a hard-boiled-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold, is the principal recommendation, although one wishes that he would occasionally lower his voice...