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...right honorable gentleman to call those of us who have done a little bit for our country Nazis? If so, the right honorable gentleman may as well understand quite clearly that I regard him as a low-class fascist." That set off a verbal Donnybrook. Cries of "tyrants . . . gag . . . come on, Hitler" crackled across the gilded chamber...
Babe and George met on a Los Angeles golf course, where a promoter, as a gag, had put the wrestler and the lady golfer in a threesome with a minister. After they were married, they kept on golfing together. On the fourth tee at Brentwood one day, the Babe hit a terrific drive down the fairway. Then George, just a plain country golfer, went through some of the contortions of his trade-flying mare, airplane spin, body-twist-and hit the ball about three yards farther than the Babe. Said Babe: "I always said I could fall in love with...
While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...
...libretto, his 30-minute Telephone is little more than a trite gag. (An impatient lover tries to propose to his girl, is repeatedly interrupted when her phone rings; finally dashes to the corner drugstore, calls her up himself and makes the grade.) But the music is a briskly running satirical commentary that requires only a 13-piece orchestra to play it, and one soprano and one baritone to sing it. College and small-town music groups could tackle it easily-musically or financially...
...probably feel that what some of the nation's top writers "have always yearned" to tell them wasn't much. Articles by Jay Franklin, Raymond Swing and Roy Chapman Andrews had the old familiar ring. The photographic art spreads in color (Will Connell, David Eisendrath) and the gag cartoons (Alan Dunn, Gardner Rea) weren't up to the average of the people who made them...