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...ain't overly worked up about it," commented Carl Snider when he learned that on his farm near Olney, ILL. was located...
...baritone; Avon Long, tenor; orchestra and chorus conducted by Lehman Engel; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The first complete recording of Gershwin's jazz classic reveals that the work does not add up to the sum of its memorable parts. Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', It Ain't Necessarily So still sparkle like diamonds, but in an ocean of dross. Recording: excellent...
...with the nation's manners & morals, from the speakeasy era to the atomic age. It also sketches the line U.S. humor has taken, from Peter Arno's old-maidish "whoops" girls of the '20s ("I'm gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose's "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it") has become...
Said his mother: "He sure does love them tools. He says he keeps them in bed to chase off burglars with. Ain't that a laugh...
...culprit willingly identified himself as Richard, and seemed delighted to get a ride in one of the squad cars. Said he: "This ain't the same auto you had the last time you arrested me." He and his pals, it developed, had gotten into the meat market twice before, had scored a $63 haul the first time, but had been nabbed on a second try. With forthright gravity, Richard described other details of his criminal career: he had also helped break into a hardware store, a fish market, a dress shop, a dry-cleaning establishment and a candy store...