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...When I came to this country during the Roosevelt era," Holton said, "the statement heard most frequently from everyone was 'It's agree country, ain't it?"' The mission of this era, he continued, was to make this world a fit place to live...
Fats Waller First Editions (Joe Sullivan, piano; Epic LP). Eight unpublished Waller compositions, from blue moods to impudent bounces, played by one of Chicago's alltime greats, Joe Sullivan. No Waller fan will complain if most of the longs sound like his familiar Honeysuckle Rose or Ain't Misbehavin...
Night People (20th Century-Fox). Razzle-dazzle, the art of hitting them where they ain't, has helped many a runt to make a winning score. This picture is a case in point. When Writer-Producer-Director Nunnally Johnson started his play, there was nothing very surprising in it: it was the safe old Berlin thriller-chase routine about an East zone kidnaping and West zone attempts to recover the fumble. But then Johnson started to call some fancy signals...
...spent." He toured various offices in the vast bureaucracy, finally dropped in to see T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. After some talk, he asked how much Andrews collects in taxes every year. About $70 billion, said Andrews. The Texan, impressed, made a philosophic observation: "Well, Mr. Commissioner, ain't it a damn good thing we don't git all the Government...
...minute or so. The horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and bromo. Otherwise, it is the usual ill-swizzled Dean & Jerry cocktail, with most of the jokes settling quickly to the bottom. Dean: "Ain't he quaint?'' Jerry (haughtily): "You mean, isn't he quisn...