CRAZY LIKE A FOX Humor by S. J. Perelman Armed Services Edition 872

Description: BUTTON-CUTE, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every boy. Perelman's life reads like a picaresque novel. It began on a bleak shelf of rock in mid-Atlantic near Tristan da Cunha. Transplanted to Rhode Island by a passing Portuguese, he became a man of proverbial strength around the Providence wharves; he could drive a spike through an oak plank with his fist. As there was constant need for this type of skilled labor, he soon acquired enough tuition to enter Brown University. He is chiefly remembered there for translating the epigrams of Martial into colloquial Amharic and designing Brooks Bros.' present trademark, a sheep suspended in a diaper. . . . Retired today to peaceful Erwinna, Pa., Perelman raises turkeys which he occasionally displays on Broadway. Those who know hint that the light burning late in his laboratory may result in a breathtaking electric bill. This special edition of CRAZY LIKE A FOX by S. J. Perelman has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Random House, Inc., New York. Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Book s in Wartime Please visit my store for additional interesting ASE titles.

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