Rumors of Feuds and Farm Dreams Among New York Luminaries
Louis Sobol catalogs feuds among writers like Saroyan and Hemingway and notes social drift toward country living. The piece lists Broadway figures and critics buying farmland in New Jersey and New York State, contrasting urban supper-table talk with rural aspirations and a personal anecdote about Fred Stone and the East Lyme acreage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Eprn Country
Central Park
Sherman Bulingsley
Broadwayie
Walter Winchell
Sidney Kingsley
Phil Baker
Maury Paul
Franklin P. Adams
Quentin Reynoluis
Forrest Wilson
Deems 1
Jor
Gilbert Gabriel
Dorothy Parker
Moss Hert
Lyme
Conn
Marton
Dolglasses
New London Day
Fred Stone
Stone
East Lyme
The
Stones
California
Goin To Town with Mark HellinGer Vacation Tips
A humorous advisory from Mark Hellinger listing comic but dangerous vacation tips. It parodies advice columns and mocks risky behaviors such as starting fires, provoking animals, rocking a canoe, firing a gun at friends, and finally staying home to avoid holiday misadventure.
Offbeat Night at the Police Station and Satirical Vignettes
A drunken man demands arrest then is ejected, only to return twice more before the sergeant relents. A debutante returns from Africa with a native husband, provoking a wild parental reaction. A first-day convict is set to break rocks, while a near-sighted worker and a carpenter spark a joke about effort.
Summer Outfit Dream Turns to Crime for Pinky
In a Spring tale of Ink Jackson, Pinky a twenty year old bank junior clerk dreams of a summer outfit. He quits, plans a petty robbery to fund clothes, robs a Polish merchant, is wounded by police, pleads guilty, and is sent to prison where he receives a Summer outfit as a joke from the warden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inky Jackson
Pinky
Earl
Hyt
Times Change Yesterday in TV News Gaffe
A fragmented newsroom dialogue reveals frustration over reusing a rain scene ending and the editor’s quip about finding a cab on a rainy night. The garbled OCR notes mention a gossipy frame, a talker behind everyone’s pack, and a general sense of TV era changes.
Warning Blondin Roadster Chase Comic
A playful spoof about a lovely blonde driving a speeding roadster at seventy with her asleep husband beside her. A state trooper pulls her over and humorously accuses her of a long chase as she tries to hush him and protect her husband’s supposed mischief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ranister
Als Heard
Best Bets Quarterly Review 1998 Arts and Sports
A quarterly retrospective surveys recent cinema, books, and sports. It notes Test Pilot and Robin Hood among top films, reviews Vivacious Lady Crime School and To the Victor, praises The Yearling and These Bars of Flesh, and highlights Bernard and Armstrong boxing prospects with Yankees future title hopes.
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Myrag Loy
Clark Gable
Spencer Tracy
Robin Hood
Errol Flynn
ARBIS
Benjamin Glazer
Ernest Hemingway
Will Fyfe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Florida
Tate
W. la White
Madame Curia
Humaneity
Ani
Elizabeth Hawes
Sarah
Weill
Louis Light
Gonnar Barland
Buddy Baer
Deferino Garcia
Glen Lee
Henry Armstrong
Harney Ross
Yankees
Lou Ambers
Armstrong
Ambers
Mark
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Saroyan
Theodore Dreiser
Sinclair Lewis
Upton Sinclair
Jim Tully
Ohn Perona
el Morcero
Alex Woollcott
Maine
Fire Island
Orson Welles
Heywood Broun
Burris Jenkins
4. C. Blumenthal
Walter Bachelor
James
Wayland
Mark Hellinger
Howarya
Kube
Isis
Eelinger
Pesce
Jim
Park Ave
Africa
Marie
Heronvict
Dail
Hellinger
Inky
Née
Entfeld
Tye
Rangut
Best Bets— Quarterly Review
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Marorie
Rinna
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