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...obscure corner of Washington's huge Commerce Department Building, two mild young statisticians completed a routine slide-rule job. Their latest release seemed nothing special to small (5 ft. 4 in.), studious Oregonian Tynan Smith and stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 185-lb.), studious New Yorker Robert Sherman (35), the Department's experts on corporation profits. But it came at an explosive moment in U.S. history: labor is howling harder than ever for higher wages, farmers are insisting on higher prices-and the Commerce Department study alleged that U.S. corporations made 18% more money after taxes...
...before him a pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea of Charles Addams' famous and unsettling New Yorker cartoon which showed what was apparently one man's ski tracks passing a tree on both sides...
Intense, ambitious, handsome, emotional, able, fluent, glib and graceful, Rufus Griswold had left his Vermont home and wandered from town to town as a printer, became a protege of Horace Greeley, got into politics briefly, edited the New-Yorker and other gaslight scandal sheets of the 1830s, married happily and became one of the zealots who insisted that American literature could be emancipated from its subservience to England. He also became a Baptist minister, though he never had a church. His anthology, The Poets and Poetry of America, went through 16 editions in his lifetime...
...were: < Two Roosevelts, father and son, respectively son and grandson of the great Teddy. To Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., assistant commanding general of the First Division, in which he won many a decoration during World War I, went an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia on General Roosevelt: "He is at his best ... in battle; his gamecock strut and his slightly corny humor take on a new and attractive quality when exhibited under fire." Last week his citation reported that, during a savage enemy counterattack, General Teddy Jr. had proceeded...
Steinberg feels that the U.S. has no really good humorous magazine, thinks The New Yorker too high-brow for the whole nation. His own brand of humor appeals to brows of all shapes. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy in January of this year, he received a commission the following month. Today Steinberg is in Washington, waiting to be shipped overseas...