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...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
George Albert Smith was born poor and grew up proud. As a plain, gawky kid in Salt Lake City, he always remembered that he bore one of the most illustrious names in Mormonism: his grandfather had been a cousin of Founder Joseph Smith. George worked hard to live up to his name. His father's house had no front lawn and he labored to put one in, then toted water for it from an irrigation ditch every night. He started to work making overalls, later on he became a successful salesman...
...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope makes a wreck of the Damon Runyon fable but uses the pieces to build some first-rate Hope (TIME, April...
...rejecting the whole rat-race as not worth the effort. It is this last fellow who is the disruptive influence. If not only he were not around, the other characters would not be so constantly aware that they are not, after all, living the good life they like to kid themselves into thinking they are living. "The Kidders"--the title is doubtless trying to suggest--are not only kidding among each other in their bantering way, but are kidding themselves with their constant show of light-hearted abandon...
...Klondike Kid. The Katz family came to the U.S. from Austria when Ike was nine and Mike was one. After four years of school, Ike went to work at 13 on the Great Northern Railway, peddling Navajo blankets, straw mattresses (at $1.50 apiece), food & drink to prospectors going to the Klondike. Then Ike and Mike started their fruit stands. In four years of 19-hour workdays they made enough money (about $500) for Ike to buy a little down-at-heels hotel and make...