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...master key to the success and fame of Corcoran & Cohen. Historic is the White House party at which Tommy the Cork, playing his accordion and singing his ballads, charmed the Great Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets...
...convention moved toward adjournment last week, its outstanding leader was Alfred Emanuel Smith, four times New York's Governor. Red of nose, nasal of voice, quick of wit as ever, Al Smith had early distinguished himself as the best political infighter at the show. Almost singlehanded he wrecked a proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well...
...State's star witness against Defendant Carroll was Convict Dwyer, now 19, more pasty-faced than ever after eight months in a cell. On the basis of his sixth confession, a 17-page horror story told with flashes of incongruous drugstore wit, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls had reopened a closed case. The story: Barbara had told Dwyer of relations with her father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine...
Whether Author Gogarty is only temporarily holding himself in, or really means to start living down the legends of his past, I Follow Saint Patrick is, for him, a strangely subdued and pious piece of writing. Of Gogarty the "wit, poet, mocker, enthusiast" and original of bawdy Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, the poet is about all that remains. As hagiographer of Ireland's patron saint, Gogarty writes as one on holy ground, and it has taken most of the Elizabethan starch...
...writings of Dane Coolidge have something of the flavor of an oldtimer's leisurely talk, in which personal reminiscences, anecdotes and tall tales are intermingled. A photographer of wild life long before candid cameras were invented, Coolidge wandered over Southwestern deserts, had the wit to pass up wild animals occasionally and photograph wild human beings instead. In 1903. when he was 30, his wanderings took him into the cattle country northeast of the Salt River Valley of Arizona, where he picked up some good stories, some better photographs. Arizona Cowboys is a belated record of his stay, a book...