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...Kennedy's Client. Around 1939 the mail began to thin out, and Downey soon went off the air. He found a spot in Billy Rose's raucous show at the Fort Worth Texas Centennial, and another at Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair. His comeback was rapid. He is a confessed millionaire, many of whose investments are under the shrewd thumb of Joseph P. Kennedy, but he has never taken himself too seriously. "Success," Morton Downey says, "has gone to my hips...
...radio, Norman Corwin's "My Client Curley" was a delightful trip into whimsy that was well-nigh a perfect blend of lilting humor and that indefinable thing called heart. On the screen, "Once Upon A Time" is an agreeable dose of fantasy that has lost the deft Corwin touch in the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and turns out good when it should have been tops...
...also the man whom one hard-headed client insured for $1,000,000 until he had safely completed the sale of the Sheepshead Bay race track, and whose sales in a single year (1922) topped $100,000,000. Just after World War I started, he put the lid on his own legend by trying to persuade the world that the holocaust could be stopped if Germany bought a piece of France at a price high enough to persuade every last penny-pinching Frenchman that peace had a profitable price...
Pegler columns (before his vacation in March) had deeply embarrassed the News. They had: 1) blasted at Marshall Field HI, whose Chicago Sun is an important client of the Daily News Building; 2) given left-handed praise to the News's and the Sun's mighty adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick...
...erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason . . . plenty of three-pipe problems, that I may avoid the cowardice of 7% cocaine*. . . . Grant me ... the meditative breakfast at morning; the unexpected client in the nighttime. . . . Strengthen me not to astonish the good Watson merely for theatrical pleasure...