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Californians were not surprised at his decision, nor at his wisecrack about it. During 16 years in California politics, 44-year-old Bob Kenny had advanced steadily by dint of "a series of political suicides." For a long time after abandoning a career as a foreign correspondent (for U.P.) to become a lawyer-politician, he had even refused to take on a party label-"I was afraid to be a Democrat and ashamed to be a Republican." He had never bridled his sharp tongue. But able, personable Bob Kenny had led a charmed life in politics...
...offered, privately, a million francs ($20,000) to call off her crusade. She spurned it, publicly. It was predicted that licensed prostitutes would merely be chased to the streets, already dangerously crowded by some 8,000 unregistered streetwalkers. There was even an attempt to dismiss the crusade with a wisecrack. Leered one bordello operator: "We are honorable merchants. . . . We are left with but one alternative-to take to the maquis...
Methodist to Madness. At 38, Earl Wilson is a chunky, sad-eyed little (5 ft. 6) fellow with an ear tuned for the casual wisecrack, an eye cocked for the offbeat feature story. The Saloon Editor comes from saloonless Rockford, Ohio, where at twelve he was choreboy for a country weekly, and later taught Methodist Sun-dav school. When he landed...
Legitimate newsmen debated whether the men who were intent on wrecking the conference were as dangerous as those who were determined to wisecrack about it. They heard Hedda Hopper cooing in a hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...
...Crabb, who with his wife and a boy and girl born during their internment were among 3,700 freed at Santo Tomas. He wrote: "Hundreds of us wept unashamed when the Stars & Stripes was run up. . . ." ¶ NBC Correspondent Bert Silen, who began his first broadcast with an inevitable wisecrack: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted over three years and a month...