Word: barker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seems no legal time limit yet to the TV commercial. Kelvinator Kitchen runs for 15 minutes. Since all the plot activity centers around a refrigerator, a range and a home freezer (all Kelvinators), it amounts to a straight 15-minute plug. The barker in Texaco Star Theater continually fondles Texaco products, performs before a curtain picturing a Texaco gas station, and is supported by a close-harmony quartet wearing Texaco uniforms...
Rollicking Round. In 1938 the Holidays-with-Pay Act assured Britain's working men & women at least a week's paid vacation a year. It remained for William Edmund ("Billy") Butlin, a bustling, 48-year-old onetime carnival barker, to teach them how to use the new leisure. "I just think about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages...
Harvard Club of Syracuse: E. Tefft Barker '37, Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & Mawhinney, Syracuse...
Johnny Weissmuller, 43, was through playing Tarzan after 16 years; he couldn't get together with his studio on contract terms. The new Tarzan: Lex Barker, an old Exeter boy who used to be aide to General Mark Clark in Italy. Weissmuller's new meal ticket: impersonating a screen character called "Jungle...
...China's Mai Mai Sze (pronounced roughly may may she), daughter of a former Chinese Ambassador to Washington. It cannot claim to rank with Innocents. But its strength lies in its dramatic presentation of an appalling contemporary problem-the "dispossessed children" of World War II. While Author Barker's juveniles lose their innocence in relatively peaceful country areas of wartime England, Author Sze's homeless ragamuffins live in a camp on the mud flats of an Eastern river, and make sorties into a nearby city for the food which barely keeps them alive...