Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Game Bird. In Laurens, Iowa, one hour after the pheasant season opened, Mrs. R. W. Lind bagged a pheasant under her daughter...
...wait a minute. Careful there, Mack, you're stepping on my sneakers ... I hear ya' man, don't snap your elbows on my ear ... I mean, like don't push ... the jacket, the jacket, man, you're wrinkling the bird; that's an engraved eagle ... okay, okay, I'm going ... the hula hoop is choking me ... acchhh...
...rewarded with no reward: a policeman rapped a lone apple from his hand; he bungled his temporary job as a dishwasher. But at last a kindly stranger invited him to share his turkey dinner (fastidious Freddie, presented with a finger bowl, carefully daubed his armpits). By the time bird-sick Freddie woke up in the hospital to find a beaming Florence Nightingale holding out a tray of turkey dinner to him. Pantomimist Skelton had put together perhaps the most rewarding half-hour of his TV career...
...handle charity bookings (for a 6% commission) was doing a land-office business with every musical headed for Broadway. But for Daarlin' Man, response was spotty ("Can you imagine a Jewish organization going to an Irish play?"). Pleadingly, she tried to sell Tennessee Williams' forthcoming Sweet Bird of Youth: "No, I really don't think Williams is so morbid. A bit sexy, maybe. And it's got Paul Newman. Wouldn't you like an early night?" The charity man wanted none of it, leaving one night less on Broadway for Tennessee Williams...
Kennedy's strategy: to spend the next year paying the strictest attention to his Senate business. He expects to be in the presidential primaries up to his tousled hair; he would like nothing better than to entice that great primary campaigner, Estes Kefauver, into the early-bird New Hampshire primary, and beat him. "It may be a little decadent," says Kennedy wryly, "but popularity's still very important...