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Most of Durante's word-mangling is spontaneous, Fowler swears-though Jimmy is shrewd enough to know that "if I learned to pronounce the big words, 60 of my pals would be out of work next day, includin' myself." Fowler has collected dozens of Durante's malapropisms. In a low mood, Jimmy once said, "The red corpsuckles is gone from my veins. I'm just a hollow shelf." Another time, when he had mistaken a firebreak clearing in the woods for the highway, he remarked, "Us perfessors don't get out of the chemical lavatory...
Fledgling Years. Even the shrewd dismissed it as a relatively harmless propaganda device. It was not. The peace propaganda campaign was a coldly calculated master plan to sabotage the West's efforts to restore the world's free economies and to defend itself...
Evil Genius. Premier Mustapha el Nahas Pasha, titular leader of the Wafd, is old (75), tired and ailing. A fellah's son and once a shrewd, honest politician, Nahas now merely wants to remain Premier in peace & quiet. He still has a following, but on official occasions these days the party usually hires a small crowd to kiss his hand, which makes him happy. The party is really run by a group of rich, unscrupulous newcomers, led by huge Fuad Serag el Din, Wafd secretary general and Minister of the Interior & Finance. Serag el Din's good friend...
Egypt's shrewd, greedy King Fuad had just died after a 19-year reign. Only six months before, the young prince had arrived in Britian to get a thorough training at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, plus a few lessons in manners and the craft of kingship. The moment he returned to Cairo, he was plumped into an atmosphere of intrigue and luxury. He was surrounded largely by sycophants who catered to his whims and seldom dared contradict him. He inherited a private fortune of $50 million, an annual Civil List income of $400,000, four fabulous palaces...
Poker-faced Leo M. Harvey, 63, an aluminum fabricator in Los Angeles, plays his cards close to his chest. No outsiders have ever found out much about the production, profits or prospects of his family-owned Harvey Machine Co. Last week shrewd-dealing Leo Harvey won a pot that made competitors gasp. The pot was a $46 million Government loan designed to make Harvey the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer...