“Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain”
― The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
― The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
“I think,” he says at last, “that it is a great pity she will not trust in me.”
― The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
― The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
“And the sum of what he wanted to get said was that each man was a Sacred Universe in himself and at the same time, inextricably, a noisome garbage pail whose bottom had rotted out and was poisoning the garden air and needed to be got rid of posthaste. That these two were not only inextricable, but were actually one and the same. And that therefore there was no Evil; and probably no Good; only Growth, only change, and the pain of change, and the ecstasies of that pain, to embrace. And all of which every single one each in his own way tried so hard to shy away from. And most of all that people—and their institutions—were not nearly so important to the Universe as people and their institutions tried so mightily to have believed.”
― Some Came Running
― Some Came Running
“The Martin and Lewis Show was developed by NBC in the wake of the stinging CBS talent raids that lured Jack Benny and others to the younger network. NBC announced a talent hunt: the network was searching for rising young performers for radio and television. Soon thereafter a network executive caught the nightclub act of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who had been performing together for several years and had developed some name recognition within the industry while remaining largely unknown to the general public.”
― On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
― On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
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