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...good family and a surpassing ugliness. When he finds himself jobless in the Depression '30s, he gets a job as manager of the Pantheon, a wretched Fowlers End movie-vaudeville house owned by Sam Yudenow. It is Sam who dominates the book, a grasping, greedy, devious monster whose hilariously disarranged speech makes the best lines attributed to Sam Goldwyn read like decorous bits from Fowler's Modern English Usage. He is a devoted movie fan, particularly of westerns: "Bing, bash, bosh-another foreskin bites the dusk!" Sam informs his new manager that he will have...
...liquid fuels with an oxidizer such as nitric acid or hydrogen peroxide. Liquid systems have produced the highest thrust-weight ratio (80 Ibs. for each i Ib. of weight), but they require an enormously complex system of tanks, valves, pumps and generators. To feed and control its monster engines North American must have pumps capable of 8,000 gal. per minute (enough to empty a 20 ft. by 40 ft. swimming pool in less than five minutes), gas generators which have the power of a nine-ton diesel locomotive. Solid propellants such as Thiokol's rubber-base fuels...
...Susan has not become bratty. Last week her composure was put to the test: when Susan put a dish of dog food before Rusty, he lifted one leg and washed away network hopes of luring a dog-food sponsor. Susan was not fazed. "Some say the camera is a monster," says she. "But I just visualize those little red lights as all the people watching, and I feel fine...
...York, a city he has sometimes regarded as a kind of Gomorrah-on-Hudson. Variety noted admiringly that "for sheer activity, traffic and buzz," his advance office in Manhattan "compares with the William Morris Agency," predicted that the crusade would be the biggest "full-chorus, hallelujah, oldtime religion, monster revival" since Billy Sunday's invasion of New York in 1917. Figures supplied by Graham's advance men and those on Sunday's setup printed in the Nation, suggest that, except for vastly-higher costs today, the two evangelists' campaigns are similar in organization...
...sublime contempt: "There were the pitiable, simpering halfwits who went about nudging people in the side, pouring the devil knows what poison in their ears, and the brethren of hamlet and village, who had never seen Curley, gazed upon his countenance on posters that portrayed a baleful-eyed monster glaring out from behind prison bars . . . Nobody who has seen me has ever accused me of being wicked or depraved-looking"-which is fair to the truth, looks only considered...