Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the worst." Another once described him thus: "Ulbricht is the kind of man who wants to enter a house which is guarded by a policeman at the front door, then decides it is easier to go in by the back door. He first begs a slice of bread, then seduces the maid, cleans out the refrigerator, works his way into the master bedroom, steals the owner's clothes, and then strides through the house to the front door and tells the policeman to go away...
Parties are a Kindelberger specialty; last week he cooked up a dinner for 60 (chicken in wine, rice, salad, and bread "with just a touch of garlic"). But Dutch always tries to get to bed early; loves to lie there reading magazines and listening to his bedside radio, which has a special attachment to plug into his good...
...Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Rose Marie, I'll See You Again, At the Balalaika, Indian Love Call (with a pretty blonde, Gale Sherwood, dressed in an unlikely, scantie-type Indian costume). There was also, of course, the Eddy specialty, Short'nin' Bread. For this last song, Eddy prepared a light-hearted parody which set out to prove, successfully, that the words to the song are pretty ridiculous. In all, he sang 13 songs, and most of them brought thunders of applause. The response, as Eddy himself admitted, was "electrifying...
Although he has a fairly solid repertory in recital music and some grand opera (he once sang Modernist Alban Berg's Wozzek under Stokowski), Eddy knows on which side his short'nin' bread is buttered. His nightclub and concert audiences would rather hear Short'nin' Bread than Schubert. And as Eddy himself sings in his parody: "Mammy's little Nelson loves short'nin' bread...
...Bread & Butter Note. In New London, Conn., a burglar broke into Bulkeley Junior High School, cooked himself a meal in the home economics room, took $110 from the principal's office, chalked a note on the blackboard: "I'm sorry...