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Letting logic and wit decide...
...named Seattle's "Man of the Year," and at a big civic dinner, with the governor in attendance, Johnny took over the mike to explain how such a little fellow could be so good. Deliberately feigning a strong Jersey accent, Johnny grinned: "Well, foist youse baffle 'em wit science and den youse have a brudder like mine...
...seven, a Ph.D. in economics at Yale, and finally bought a newspaper in Madison, Wis. By the time a set of twins came along (Thornton's brother was stillborn), Amos Wilder had developed his own notions of education. Outside his own home, he was all charm and wit; as an after-dinner speaker, he could rival Chauncey Depew. But in his own home, he was a dominie indeed...
Stunned, Kaufman tried to explain that he had not been "wittingly antireligious. I was merely speaking out against the use and overuse of this Christmas carol in connection with the sale of commercial products." He soon got impressive religious support: the Rev. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, chairman of the broadcasting and film department of the National Council of Churches, declared that Kaufman's remark was "more expressive of religious sensitiveness than of any spirit of derision." Furthermore, said Dr. Douglass, "the real sacrilege is the merciless repetition of Silent Night and similar Christmas hymns by crooners, hillbillies, dance bands...
...much of Shaw's gently playful comedy the movie preserves-and only so much. Bypassing the play's philosophy and blunting its rapier wit, the Hollywood version offers instead some gaudy Colosseum sequences, complete with gladiators, lions and glamorous vestal virgins...