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...FITZPATRICK...
Exeter: ie, Miller; it, Ranney; lg. Marcovich; c. Julian; rg. Davis; rt, Wiley; re, Brooke; q.b., Blaik; lhb, Mellen; rhb, fitzpatrick; fb. Deveres...
Farley and Mead took their seats in silence. But Herbert Lehman, when he heard that he was down with the precinct captains, hustled over to Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick and informed him curtly that he considered himself affronted. Then, with Mrs. Lehman on his arm, he swept out. Chortled the Daily News next day: "Is it possible that the Democratic Party is split by even more dissensions, feuds, and hatreds than appear on the surface...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...
Only slightly disguised by Paramount's brighteyed little idea men, "California" members to fool Western fans for about thirty seconds before it crupts into a Fitzpatrick Travelogue neatly tucked into the same old roasted saddlebag that serves as standard fare in all horse operas...