Word: pelican
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...never said that the Albino limerick [TIME, March 4] is or ever was my favorite. I only said that it is a better limerick than the Pelican-which isn't saying much. I never esteemed either of them. But, having been pursued by the darned bird for 40 years as Mr. Coleridge's old sailor was by the albatross, I am certainly entitled to have it and the other one appear no worse than they are. And your version of the Albino appears worse than anything I have seen-which is saying a great deal. It really goes...
Dixon Merritt, skinny, big-beaked Tennessee newsman who in 1909 hatched the famed but limping pelican limerick,* couldn't stop friends from improving the occasion of his retirement as REA press-agent with the revelation of his own (fit-to-print but still limping) favorite...
Besides being a brilliant comic entertainer, Kaye has considerable talent as a straight actor. Here he gets his first good chance to display this talent, playing two deep-metropolitan types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...
...certain bridge in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. There, his brother's white-tied ghost rises from the water, and jazzily explains to the learned goof that Buzzy, star witness in a gangster murder, has been bumped off. The scholar, his double, must replace him at the Pelican, play upon the superstitious sensibilities of his killers, avenge his death by placing his fatal information in the hands of the D.A. (Otto Kruger). Just to help out in hard places, such as impersonating a great floorshow star when you know nothing in words of less than nine syllables, Buzzy...
...Dunn, 57, a big (235 lb.), easygoing citizen of Pelican Rapids (pop. 1,560), is a longtime member of Minnesota's Republican Old Guard. In his home province of Otter Tail County he farms 240 acres and runs a $100,000 fishing resort he built mostly with his own hands. In the state legislature he has risen in 18 years to be majority floor leader and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee. So long as silo-tall Harold Stassen was on the scene in person, Dunn was a secondary figure. But when Stassen went...