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...Topper" with Cary Grant, Constance Bennett and Roland Young tells the story of two amusing reprobates who acquire the rather disconcerting habit of shuffling off this mortal coil at will. Mr. Grant and Miss Bennett resolve to do one good deed before they knock at the pearly gates, deciding to transform Mr. Young, America's foremost Babbit into America's number one play-boy. Combining the photographic tricks of "The Invisible Man" with a new freshness entirely its own, the film rates as tops in humor; the only adverse criticism is that perhaps "Topper" is a little too much...
Manfully Zurich detectives and policemen worked to prevent Nazis or Swiss Jewbaiters from causing any incidents during the Congress, but at week's end Swiss fascists managed to knock the hat off Rabbi Wolf Gold, once of New York, now of Palestine, and to bloody the nose of a British delegate...
...obligation to put forth evidence of red-blooded masculinity ... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest." Author Hemingway called for a mutual baring of bosoms. What next occurred is the subject of variorum accounts. Author Eastman's version: "I knew he could knock me out quickly in a boxing match, so I grappled with him and threw him on his back across Max Perkins' desk and then over the desk and down on his head in a corner." Author Hemingway offered his story as he sailed for Spain. On his forehead were...
Complaint: While repairing a truck on Mr. Hearst's San Simeon ranch, a "vicious, wild and dangerous ostrich" did knock down Mr. Zelda, stamp upon and trample him so that he was unconscious for three hours and suffered from brain concussion, traumatic hernia, nervous shock...
...after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers to the fact that they are knock-kneed...