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...After brooding over the unequal struggle between writers and tax collectors, A. P. Herbert, author, wit and longtime M.P., wrote a letter to the editor of the London Times: ". . . We sell capital and it is treated as income. The work of three years is taxed in one. We have a sudden success, after lean years, and soar into the regions where we are allowed to keep only a few shillings in every pound. Such a success cannot often be repeated . . . It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up in the tax race. If something is not done for us soon...
...flavor which separates this book from other Bemelmans, however, is derived from the title ploy, identified as "The Delicate Art of Self-Aggrandizement"--previously discussed by the English wit, Stephen Potter, as "Lifesmanship...
...professor of English at Northwestern University, Bergen Evans brings to TV a nicely turned academic wit and an impressive fund of miscellaneous information ("When Queen Victoria became a Knight of the Garter, she had it put on her arm, not her leg"). He first showed his debunking talents in his 1946 book, The Natural History of Nonsense, which shied irreverent rocks at some of mankind's most venerable myths. Before Down You Go, Evans made trial TV runs on several local shows, recalls that one of them was so bad it was watched "only by members of my immediate...
...wordy book about the era when the movies were learning to talk is a rather strenuous satire, without much warmth or wit. Kelly is a silent-film favorite who makes the transition to talkies with the help and kibitzing of sidekick Donald O'Connor. Jean Hagen is Kelly's beautiful-but-not-so-bright leading lady whose squeaky voice is not O.K. for sound. Debbie Reynolds, the girl hired to do Jean's behind-the-camera talking and singing, finally wins both public acclaim and Kelly...
...government's motion approving the Churchill program. Attlee and the bulk of Labor stayed in their seats, abstaining but not voting against. But 40 Bevanites and another 15 Laborites, most of them pacifists, filed into the lobby in open defiance of party orders, to record Noes ("Nyes," one wit called them) against rearmament. They were the only Noes, and Churchill...