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...middlebrow Atlantic Monthly, the highbrows' lowbrow Cartoonist Al Capp confessed last week to a secret ambition-"to get published in something that won't be used to wrap fish in the next morning. And so, the other day, I was Writing a book." Its title: I Remember Monster. ("The first part" explained Al "is a memoir of my early days as assistant to a well-known cartoonist.") Under its tomfoolishness, Capp's article in the February issue of the Atlantic (cover by Capp) was a perceptive essay on Charlie Chaplin...
...with the courtly manners who could call a greying colleague "My dear boy . . ." and still make it sound quite proper. He taught history with an actor's skill. Looking majestically out into space, he would boom a few sentences, then pause, then boom out again. Sometimes he would wrap his double-breasted coat close around him as if it were a cloak and seem to become Disraeli, Metternich or Bismarck himself. Even his prolonged "Aahhs . . ." ("A miracle of breath control," one student called them) seemed dramatic. Once, in the midst of his pacings, he fell right off his platform...
...United Nations and meant well. He did bring out, however, that there are over 6,000 hand gestures in his native dance, and that two India dancing girls can converse with these without using anything else besides a sari. He also edified the local population by demonstrating how to wrap a turban and how to hit a drum...
Trumbull ran off the same pattern again in the fourth quarter to wrap up the game for the Elis. Dudley's Dave Gilbert set up the Commuter score with a 40 yard end run, then heaved a 30 yard pass to Bill Monteith, who went over standing...
After thinking over President Truman's Point Four program for backward nations, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram spotted a big flaw in the idea. Point Four would wrap a protective government guarantee around private funds invested outside the U.S. What irked Schram was that there was no program for improving "the shabby treatment of capital at home...