Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that when he pulls it down in front it exposes him behind, and vice versa. It was in a White House bathroom, the authors note gleefully, that Prime Minister Winston Churchill was sold the phrase "United Nations" by President Roosevelt. The President had fixed on it in bed before breakfast, shouted it through the bathroom door. The two biggest guns of democracy are now on such good terms that they can "say anything to each other, however painful." But as they chat back & forth, face to face or on the trans-Atlantic telephone, it is always "Winston" and "Mr. President...
...frustrated actor with a crew haircut and a name he paid $100 for has been added to the list of comedians who brighten the U.S. breakfast hours. The newcomer is Garry Moore, master of ceremonies of The Show Without a Name (NBC, Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m., E.W.T.). His program marks NBC's first attempt to pick up some of the audience which drinks its coffee with CBS's Arthur Godfrey from 6:30 to 7:45, Blue's Don McNeill from...
...emcee, Moore is just another likable guy with a knack for gags like this: "I only have one haircut a year. Every Thanksgiving our butcher cuts me and the turkey for the same price." His show follows the long-set breakfast-time formula of gags and music, but is more elaborate than most. It boasts two singers (Brad Reynolds and Marie Greene), a straight man to feed Moore lines (Howard Petrie), Irving Miller's orchestra and the Merry Men Quartet...
...radiophiles must love to hear the patter of little comedians around the house in the mornings, for breakfast programs are unusually successful. Hundreds of local stations have their chuckling chanticleers, and Don McNeill of Blue's Breakfast Club was this year voted the Star of Stars in Movie-Radio Guide's annual poll...
...experience in the Navy. He had been a cook in a CCC camp, and as the days of torment and hunger closed down on the raft, Gene would regularly "cook meals" for his mates. When the sun rose on three empty bellies, Gene liked to recall shooting squirrels for breakfast with his father . . . "It seems there are a lot of squirrels in Missouri," says Dixon dryly...