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Comment: Why you can't lick Croydon
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THE Royal Mail has chosen Croydon as the subject for its latest
64p stamp. The news is astonishing. My telephone became white hot
and then burst into a gaseous cloud of over-excited molecules
because of all the people ringing me about it.
What (they asked while there was still time) is a 64p stamp for?
Why does it show three coloured ring-doughnuts, with no sign of
Croydon? Why Croydon anyway? Why not Slough? Is it all right (some
added in a low voice) to laugh at Croydon?
The design on the new 64p stamp is, I learn, meant to illustrate
a current experiment with coloured lights (not ...
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Benchley, shaking change out of the world's pockets
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Benchley. By Billy Altman. Norton. $30. As Robert Benchley once put it: "By 1936, we of course mean 1934...of it. But don't ask a cow to explain milk. Robert Charles Benchley (1889-1945) was one of these givers of milk...
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Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800-1840.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in...two kinds of people in the world," Robert Benchley observed, "those who believe there...after 1830, brought about in part by Charles Grandison Finney, whose career mirrored...
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Dogs, Snoopy and Charles M Schulz
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail
; ...turn around three times before lying down,'' quipped Robert Benchley) to old age. And in return all they want is food...that populated the Peanuts strip until its creator, Charles M Schulz, called it a day to fight cancer in January...
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AUTHOR IS OFF MARK IN WEAK BIOGRAPHY OF FAMED HUMORIST.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...post-literate age. Benchley could assume that his...alludes only to itself, Benchley's literary references...he mangle names like Charles Evans Hughes and Scarlett...school would ``cause Robert to aspire to a more upscale lifestyle.'' Benchley rebuked an actor in...
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`Vicious Circle' Boasts Satire in the Round
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Jennifer Jason Leigh Robert Benchley Campbell Scott Charles MacArthur Matthew...likely to recognize Robert Sherwood, Edna Ferber...she married twice; Charles MacArthur (Matthew...long-suffering Robert Benchley. History does not...
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott...1920s, when she and Benchley were daily companions...affair with journalist Charles MacArthur (Matthew...friendship and love of Benchley, the monologs capture...
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Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections.(INSIGHT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...finally electrocuted at the Charles Street Jail on Aug. 23...in the famous case was Robert Benchley, the humorist and film maker. Mr. Benchley had long since moved out...more of the same in the Benchley affidavit but that was...
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The Literary Life
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...long since we published Charles Williams's magnum...30 years since Peter Benchley's Jaws was first published...Title reveals that Mr Benchley had great difficulty...father [the humorist Robert Benchley] didn't like it...
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Roaring '20s queen of quips wasn't a whole load of laughs
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Jennifer Jason Leigh Robert Benchley....Campbell Scott Charles MacArthur....Matthew...cattier literati (among them Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman...Parker's best friend, Robert Benchley, is especially fine...
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ARTS With their wits about them
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...lifelong best friend, Robert Benchley, the only man that everybody...was back in England. Benchley was, by all accounts...They were joined by Robert Sherwood, a man six...satire on Hollywood), Charles MacArthur (who teamed...
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