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...minutes of his time. With the assistance of 72-year-old Newsman Earl Godwin, 75-year-old Barkley fills his show with political anecdotes, sidelights on such personages as Franklin Roosevelt ("He went back to the horse & buggy days in his shaving-he used a straight-edged razor"), and cheery comment on world affairs ("I think Korea is tragic but not insoluble"). For his first show, Barkley won high praise from Comic Jack Benny ("I think Barkley is naturally funny"). The Veep is ready to accept commercial sponsorship if he can find a sponsor who measures up to "the dignity...
...autobiography, Sandburg, now 75, remembers his departure thus: "I walked out of the house with my hands free, no bag or bundle, wearing a black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...
...crime incidence so much as crime violence. Said Earl Howe, in the House of Lords: "You can hardly pick up a newspaper without seeing some report of a case where . . . gangsters have [attacked] some inoffensive, defenseless person [with] a revolver, a cosh,* a bicycle chain, or a razor...
Added Lord Chief Justice Goddard: "The facility with which a razor blade can be hidden in the hand and used with the most horrible effect has to be seen to be believed. When someone lets a cosh fall on a bench in court ... it makes one shudder to think of the effect of it on a human head." A longtime believer in corporal punishment, Judge Goddard asked for the return of the birch, which, when "laid on by a chief warder who knew his business, not only gave them a taste of something unpleasant, but led to considerable ridicule." Tory...
...book, and there are over 400, cause either a guffaw or an "ooph" depending in each case on the reader's politics over the last six years. A few have lost their sting, but most still retain a quality which can best be likened to the impact of a razor-sharp sledge hammer...