Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels there is definitely something wrong with the comic stage in America. "Neither the writers nor the actors seem to have a sense of 'style' in the theater. The English have a great and persistent tradition for high comedy--drawing-room comedy--and they manage the right blend of elegance and finish and wit in their plays and also in their productions. Here, we just don't have the tradition, and there are too many other pressures on the theater...
...want three, four or even five years from now." Putting his precept into practice when he took over P. Lorillard Co. 2½years ago, Chairman Lewis Gruber, 63, rescued his aged (founded 1760), slipping company by gambling heavily on smokers' future desires. He changed the filter and blend of Kent cigarettes to cut down tar and nicotine and -as he says in the kind of phrase that sounds snappy around a boardroom table -give smokers "less of the things they have been smoking filters to get less of." Result, in the statistics that look wonderful on a boardroom...
...salesman whose single, all-consuming passion is tobacco. There is little else he can talk about, little else that interests him. When dining in Manhattan restaurants, he passes out Kents to neighboring tables. At poker and pinochle (he is an indifferent player), he shuffles out samples of new cigarette blends for informal taste polls. His other pleasures are simple, though his tastes are rich. He dresses expensively, favors dark blue suits and blue or grey silk ties that blend well with his heavy-lidded, blue-grey eyes, tans his skin under a sun lamp, plays up his graceful hands...
...Blend Luck. In Memphis, a uniformed Salvation Army worker had stepped i to a drugstore, ordered a cup of coffee-to-go, and was standing in line waiting to pay for it when a nearsighted customer dropped a quarter into the brew...
...with advance sales already past $1,000,000. The story: something about a dreamy London chick (Verdon), working in a turn-of-the-century waxworks, who gets tied up with a U.S. vaudeville strong man. In Washington, the Daily News's Critic Tom Donnelly called Redhead "a mad blend of Agatha Christie and Mack Sennett...