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...Coogan, 37, took what he could get in the way of a film job: a cowboy character part in a grade B western. Chaplin, now rich, white-haired, often mated (to four wives) and much berated (for his pinko leanings), announced that he had played the part of the Tramp for the last time. To Columnist Sidney Skolsky he said: "I've retired him. I'll never play him again, because he's got nothing more to say. I've been playing him for over 35 years. I no longer have any enthusiasm...
...Lady. Had it not been for World War I, Harold Wallace Ross might have frittered away his career as a roistering tramp newspaperman. He left home at 18, bummed his way for seven years from paper to paper until he enlisted in the Army during World War I. He became editor of the Army's Stars & Stripes, on a staff that included Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams and Grantland Rice. After the war, they forgathered in New York, where their friendship continued at poker parties of the Thanatopsis Literary & Inside Straight Club and at the famed Round Table of wits...
...befriending a tramp who has stolen his valise, Toto is invited to take shelter on a dreary wasteland at the city's fringe, where glum derelicts elbow one another to get into each stray shaft of sunlight that breaks through the winter clouds. By spring, Toto is busily turning the hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor, and imbuing them with good will. Among the newcomers is a badgered, not-quite-pretty girl (Brunella Bovo), with whom he strikes up a charmingly innocent courtship...
...Tramp Dog. Outside the political arena, McCarthy is an ingratiating and friendly fellow. "He comes up to you with tail wagging and all the appeal of a tramp dog," said one colleague. "And he's just about as trustworthy." Joe was liked and respected in college, liked and respected in the Marines, liked and respected in his home town. Within five minutes or so, everyone he meets is calling him "Joe." At 41, he has a candid eye for a pretty girl, but he has never married. "I can't work at politics...
...five weeks of practice, almost every body had worked out his own signals. But since it was impossible not to tramp, instinctively, on the brakes when the driver ahead began his alarming arm flapping, the accident toll was diminishing. In the face of the sternest handicaps, down-East individualism was still proving...