The Golden Age Of Slapstick Comedy
December, 1961
Today, there is probably nothing the world wants or needs more than an epidemic of laughter. Laughter is the sound a nation makes when it is proud of its past and confident of its future. We made that sound not so very long ago. We made it and we exported it to the four corners of the earth, creating thereby an image of the United States as the capital of joy and merriment, a happy-go-lucky, fun-loving country of clowns who preferred pie in the face to pie in the sky, exploding cigars to implodi...
