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...some people suggest that under the terms of H.R. 1776, Mr. Roosevelt might give away part or all of the Navy. How could could anybody be so dumb, says Mr. Roosevelt. Don't people know he is fond of the Navy? Then why would he give it away? Why, he would just as soon stand on his head...
...Write a Book (sweet), Love Is My Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named...
Those two teams certainly packed a lot of punch and so did most of the rooters. (That's rather good, don't you think?) I'm so dumb about football--my escort (oh, no, I didn't go alone) nearly killed me when I asked him if those were draft numbers the players were wearing on their backs...
...earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial. It did not stop until Nov. 5. There, according to convention, it should have stopped for good, since a majority of the voters voted for a golden voice instead. But the election, far from striking the Voice dumb, gave it new inspiration...
...DEAD CAN TELL-Helen Rellly-Random House ($2). Plugging New York's Finest, this latest Inspector McKee story deals with a couple of murders in the Fast Set. There's evidence that a dead woman lives, that sex is not dead, that Medical Examiner Fernandez is dumb like a fox. Recommended...