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Sirs: I have lived a half-century without ever knowing that dingus-"&"-was called the ampersand! (TIME, Dec. 14.) Wasn't there a famous & fashionable hotel in the Adirondacks by that name? If so, perhaps some of your readers might know who gave it that name & why. R. H. JOHN...
...wasn't the Shubert's, although it happened before they went under. But that's the gag on the road, you know. . . Not content with doing their own business. . .producers have to go out of their way to try and injure someone else's. Why is it like that? I don't know. I was my own manager for ten years in this country. I should know all about...
...performing the role he made famous when the show was a Manhattan musicomedy. He is a bedazzled aviator who spends a night in a bathtub, then breaks the altitude record because he lacks sense enough to come down. Two of Flying High's best songs ("Thank Your Father," "Wasn't It Beautiful While It Lasted") have been whistled so much that they had to be left out, but in other respects the cinema improves the play...
...Senator. . . . Everyone has been so lovely. . . . This is only the second time I've ever been interviewed and I've never made a political speech in my life. When the Senator came home at night, we didn't talk politics. He came home to rest. He wasn't one of those husbands who called their wives when they made a speech and told them to get their friends to come and listen in the gallery. I had one warning that he was going to speak. That was when he made his Drought speech...
...good fellow. ... I guess anyone would try to help another out in a case like that. . . . One of the officers whispered that I should give the name of Jones. I objected but he insisted. ... I don't agree with Hoover on the Dry question? but I wasn't drinking." (A year ago Brother-in-Law Leavitt was arrested for intoxication, paid a $25 fine...