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...wonders today what so captivated her contemporaries, the answer is probably that she viewed the period as it liked to picture itself: a time of grace and intelligence, when irony could conquer sentimentality and laughter would always overwhelm tears. Her chief reputation was as a quipster, the Guinevere of the Algonquin Round Table. Hers was the tongue heard round the world. Her famed couplet, "Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses," not only set a style for lonely movie heroines but may well have spurred the development of contact lenses. During the long Victorian era, wit had hardly...
Some of Cerfs competitors readily suggest that he is a creature of his own publicity, a quipster who has parlayed his way into the publishing pantheon through the good offices of television and Joe Miller's joke book. "Bennett," says one fellow publisher, "is not an intellectual. He's not a literary man. He's an entrepreneur, an impresario." But that is only the surface of Cerf. Explains Epstein: "Bennett runs Random House as a conservative branch of show business. The company is vulgar to a degree. But what makes the difference with Bennett is how important...
Some curbstone quipster uttered the inevitable gag: "It must have been a Republican who complained." Still, it was awfully apt, as two blue-uniformed New York policemen piled out of a prowl car in front of Philanthropist Mary Lasker's Beekman Place town house at 1:05 in the morning. The complainant was an unidentified neighbor lady, whatever her politics, and she was finding it kind of hard to sleep, what with Dutch Adler's rhythms blaring from the open windows and most of the 110 partygoers thunderously doing all those modern dances. "Would you close a couple...
...Norfolk, Neb., where at twelve he appeared as The Great Carsoni, the mitey master of magic and ventriloquism (he can still do both). After graduation as a journalism major from the University of Nebraska, he became a disk jockey, was a writer for CBS's Red Skelton, then quipster-quiz-master for ABC's afternoon Who Do You Trust? And in his five years of squeezing comedy out of contestants, Carson found just the honing he needed for The Tonight Show...
...critic deplored Graves's "childish tantrum," and another pointed out that "if all artists were to be permitted to destroy fakes or what they consider to be fakes, wherever they find them, all collections would be in jeopardy." A quipster proposed that Selig hang the damaged painting with the label: "Latest work of Morris Graves." But Collector Selig himself was relaxed, wrote Graves a letter: "Your anger was justifiable. I would prefer to leave payment or the choice of replacement of the damaged picture to you. Whatever you decide will be fine with...