Word: smidgeon
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...times snottier than lead Violent Femme Gordon Gano on his worst day. Auckerman elicits the sort of admiration I felt for the kid who sat behind me in fourth grade, a sedate youth who poured urine all over the teacher's desk. This record has just a smidgeon of discipline which makes it cohesive. After all, snottiness is what rock and roll is all about...
..../But my heart is bigger than your heart/And I will outbleed you.") Yet it lacks the swiftness and compression for which his incident cries. We find in this issue, as bonus, a poem which reads from the bottom up. An interesting conception, but contentively, I'm afraid, just a smidgeon more down...
Died. William August Bartholomae, 70, California oilman, rancher and yachtsman, a onetime drillfield roughneck who hit oil on a smidgeon of unwanted California land after World War I, branched into gold mining, cattle ranching, real estate, becoming so rich (estimates run all the way up to $40 million) that his third wife last year won a $5,500,000 divorce settlement; of knife wounds in the abdomen (police booked Bartholomae's brother's Spanish-born sister-in-law on suspicion of murder); in the kitchen of his $500,000 mansion at Newport Beach, Calif...
...dependent as ever on the flawless mugging, caterwauling voice and limitless energy of Lucille Ball. Burns & Allen have changed their script sufficiently to allow a place for their son, Ronny, who supplies an unaccustomed note of sobriety into the antic proceedings; Danny Thomas is still pumping up a smidgeon of wit through 30 minutes of sentimental goo, while Schoolmarm Eve Arden in Our Miss Brooks has switched from public high to private elementary school without making any great change in the standard cast or plot. The brightest of the new situation shows is You'll Never Get Rich, starring...