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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sultry afternoon last week, the revolving doors whirled and a brisk little Asian stepped into the lobby of the Washington Star building. He strode over to the marble classified-ad counter and stuck out his hand. "I am President Rhee of the Republic of Korea," he said. The flabbergasted clerk took his hand and murmured, "I'm glad to meet you," just as John Simmons, the equally flabbergasted State Department protocol officer, caught up with Syngman Rhee and whisked him off to the offices of the Star's Editor Ben McKelway for a chat...
...Frank," ad-libbed Arthur Godfrey to Tenor Frank Parker on Godfrey's morning radio and TV show one day last week, "how many times do you think you ought to warn a man that if he's drunk on the job you'll fire him?" Replied Parker, "I think he should get a couple of warnings, and then that would be it.'' Said Godfrey: "I fired a man yesterday that I told the last time, which was the seventh time, that I wouldn't take it again...
...Ad Nauseam Hollywood has found that the best way to get the entertainment seeker away from the TV set, short of turning out better films, is to go after him in advertising copy-bombard him with sex, pound him with superlatives and stab him with exclamation points...
...prove this point, Hollywood's Daily Variety listed a few examples of ad copy culled from the Los Angeles papers: Princess of the Nile (20th Century-Fox) : "No woman with a soul ever danced like Shalimar." About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount): "She gave more of herself in six weeks than most women give in a lifetime!" Hell Below Zero (Columbia): "You'll never forget the fight in Capetown . . . the kiss on deck . . . the rendezvous in the cabin." Said Variety: "It was contended by some that public intelligence had outgrown some of the [Production Code] bans-but more important, that...
...oldtime cowboy movie star decided that since television had made him famous all over again, he might as well cash in. His ad in Hollywood's Daily Variety trade sheet: "One of America's greatest Western heroes. Hoot Gibson [58], star of more than 350 feature motion pictures. Guest star on television and radio from coast to coast. Now available...