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...delightful as it is tactless, the book sent many Canadians into gales of laughter, enraged others, who yanked copies from Toronto bookstore windows. The Toronto Star, refusing to review the book, commented: "Do you think our newspaper is printed on asbestos?" The Star's sports columnist suggested: "We could boil them in oil over a slow fire...
...Columnist F(ranklin) P(ierce) A(dams)-better known to plain citizens as the beaky, saturnine wit of Information Please-one day last week kept a rendezvous with his boss, New York Post Editor Ted Thackrey, to talk things over. "Well," asked F. P. A., "am I fired?" Editor Thackrey suggested a less callous formulation: F. P. A. might prefer to resign. But F. P. A. preferred to be fired...
Terrible-tempered Gregory Ratoff, according to Columnist John Chapman, was giving all of his directorial attention to making two great Danes hold still for a scene in The Corsican Brothers, now shooting. One of the beasts was fidgety, wouldn't behave. Raged the frustrated director: "Take that dog's name! I'll never give him another part...
...Three Motorcycles." The top organization, Office for Emergency Management, was aptly described by Washington News Columnist Richard F. Scholz as "President Roosevelt, Wayne Coy and three motorcycles." OPM, the great factory whose most famed product is bottlenecks and coordinators, was in almost mortal combat with OPACS-merely over method. OPM and Lend-Lease Administration were fighting fiercely over jurisdiction. OPM and the Army were scrapping about ordnance; the Army and Lend-Lease were at loggerheads over which should get the produced planes, tanks, guns, etc. OPM and the Office of Civilian Defense were at odds; the State Department wrestled with...
Lions of London's midsummer social season this year have not been belted earls but simple U.S. journalists. Publisher George Backer of the New York Post, Editor Herbert Agar of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Radioracle Raymond Gram Swing have dined, winedir" by the London Daily Herald's veteran Columnist Hannen Swaffer, Miss Thompson had to install three stenographers and two male social secretaries in her suite at the Savoy to answer mail and arrange engagements. So busy was she that Lady Reading, relict of the late great jurist, was unable to make a date to see her. Later Lady Reading...