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...evening was indeed a catch-all. In David Behrman's Whistling Six, six unusual flutes and whistles cooed and chortled flirtatiously, and two even used bubbles to make sounds. Such a diversion is certainly a delight, but we laughed at it less for its real humor than for its juxtaposition with the serious pieces on the program. Here was a piece that was supposed to be funny...
Unhappy Tourist. Moss Hart persuaded Lazar to become an independent agent soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
...line includes Jerry Hillebrand, Colorado, and Bill Miler, Miami of Florida at ends; Bill Neighbors, Alabama, and Merlin Olsen, Utah State at tackle; Roy Winston, Louisiana State, and Dave Behrman, Michigan State at guard, and Alex Kroll, Rutgers, at center...
...take a look at a religious painting he was considering from the rival firm of Thomas Agnew & Sons, Duveen blandly said: "Very nice, my dear fellow, very nice. But I suppose you are aware that those cherubs are homo sexual." As Duveen's biographer S. N. Behrman tells it, the painting went back to Agnew's forthwith...
...tests show that a patient's clotting time is not unduly prolonged, they say, the surgeon can go ahead, using special techniques to stanch bleeding and to su ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most...