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After deep soul-searching and some well-considered arithmetic, the movie industry is cuddling up to the little monster that gave it such a scare a few years ago. Items...
...charge, Fisher has carted about huge reproductions of Capp's cartoons with the supposed pornography marked. Bluff, rollicking Cartoonist Capp, who started out as Fisher's apprentice 22 years ago, also gets off some free-handed statements. In an Atlantic Monthly article titled "I Remember Monster.'' Capp wrote that one of his early bosses was "a certain treasure trove of lousiness, who, in the normal course of each day of his life, managed to be. in dazzling succession, every conceivable kind of a heel...
...France wearing plastic helmets, orange corsets or Cellophane wrappers. Now a 32-year-old British thrilier-writer, amateur stargazer and bird watcher named Cedric Allingham reveals that he bumped into a six-foot Martian last Feb. 18 on a lonely Scottish moor not far from where the Loch Ness monster used to sport...
...Here are a few samples of the verbal bacilli we take into our bloodstreams every day with the morning paper. A blimpwich is a monster Dagwood. Traxcavators are for the farm, exercycles for the form. Mistle toes are slippers. Ranchjamas and perma-sized skijamas are what you wear to bed. You also wear antsy pants...
...Very Self and Voice, edited by Ernest J. Lovell Jr. Carefully culled reports and comments by contemporaries add up to a fascinating picture of Poet Lord Byron, professional romantic and "most amiable monster'' (in Stendhal's phrase) and his loves, feuds, scrapes and enthusiasms (TIME...