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...that he had a machine to analyze comedians." Walker's machine reported that Jack got laughs all right but that he had no character, like Benny's "cheapness," Gracie Allen's "dumbness." "There is nothing to tune back to each week," reported Walker, and the Paar option was dropped. Today, says Jack, he is just as glad that he did not play along with the phony character bit: "I have no character except what I am-complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable and lonely...
...Grenville Wodehouse is by now a part of the Anglo-U.S. climate. Scatty, erratic, now on now off the beam, Wodehouse has nonetheless pulled off the astonishing feat of making his creations a living part of the civilized world. Even the many who cannot stomach him have no option but to respond to the mere word Jeeves with a mental picture of a whole society; while to those who lap him up, a whole corner of mental life is occupied by such characters as Lord Emsworth, Lord ("Uncle Fred") Ickenham, Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith and that great Sheba...
...least one instance, Norris Cotton still does represent Goldfine. The instance is that of the Rogers Hotel in Lebanon. Goldfine is the real owner of the Rogers. In 1943, Cotton negotiated the purchase of the hotel as a front for Client Goldfine, oversaw the title search and made the option payment from his personal bank account. Goldfine repaid Cotton for the option, but it was still necessary for Cotton to take final title to the hotel. As far as the public record is concerned, Cotton still holds the title, although he says he has filed with Goldfine a letter stating...
...their intellectually formative years.
Beamed Ike: "Splendid idea."
...bill extends unemployment benefits half again as many weeks as each state allows. It requires states to repay within four years such funds advanced by the Federal Government. But it gives the states an option to accept or decline this additional aid. What Kennedy and Douglas were after was a broader measure-mandatory for the states-that revamped basic principles of unemployment compensation by 1) requiring uniform national scales of payment and length of eligibility, and 2) extending benefits to 1,000,000 workers not now covered. Drawled Harry Byrd: "The Senator from Massachusetts is at the North Pole...