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Joseph Mitchell is as gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now collected for the first time in book form. For Humorist Mitchell professes to find nothing comic in his wacky human jujubes. He says he does not caricature them. Instead, he describes...
Hague was so flabbergasted that he could only mutter through his jowls: "I don't know anything about it." Grumbled bat-eared Michael J. Quill, head of the Transportation Workers Union, himself often tagged with a Red label: "Hague is a bum and always was a bum, and I don't think you can whitewash him just because he says he supports...
Last weekend the Philadelphia Phillies came home to Shibe Park after a seven-day road trip. In the first of a four-game series with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to 2. The Sunday doubleheader, played in steam-kettle heat, was all Brooklyn, 9-to-4, 6-to-0. But townsfolk fought shin and elbow to welcome the Phillies home...
...vainly trying to get their shaggy, Pan-piping friend to romp with them, are depicted in academic, sugary fashion. But the draftsmanship is strong, the painted human flesh masterly. In its time the picture has traveled widely on boxes of Hoffman House perfectos, in a comic lithograph showing a bum leaning on the Hoffman bar, staring at the nymphs by their woodsy creek. The caption: "I've been looking all over the world for that creek, but darned if I can find...
Consider the plight of the Bedford Avenue beauty, the denizen of Section 16, who has lauded his beloved Bums ever since McPhail was a pup. Upturned Dodger noses and supercilious smiles will greet the once-inspired shouts of "trow de big bum out; de empire oughtta take gas." National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia...