Word: bronchos
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...with the first load; they never have. When they did get there, naturally, they decided to knock off for lunch before unloading. Mrs. Roosevelt went back uptown for her own lunch. She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho...
...Chicago a convention, attended by 200 station representatives, solemnly voted to make membership in NAB no requisite for membership in the National Independent Broadcasters association. Since then NIB membership has doubled. At Manhattan's Rodeo, Cowgirl Alice Greenough took a WOR mike along on a straightbucking broncho to describe her sensations to the radio audience. Alice's description was brief: "Ooph . . . ooph . . . ooph...
...first important press-agent job was handling Broncho Billy Anderson, the cinema cowboy most in favor before the days of Tom Mix. Since then, Maney has press-agented some 90 shows for virtually every big producer on Broadway and for such oddities as a colored gentleman "a year removed from a treetop in the Congo." He has publicized such hits as The Front Page, Coquette, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Sailor Beware!, The Children's Hour. Says he from experience: "I have yet to find an actor, producer or stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among...
Back in court was tomato-nosed Funnyman W. C. Fields, trying again to sidestep payment of Dr. Jesse Citron's $12,000 fee for treating a bad case of broncho-pneumonia in 1936. In the first trial the doctor claimed that Fields got sick from drinking too much ("about two quarts a day"). Said Funnyman Fields: "It was two other diseases. I've never been sick from drinking whiskey...
...influenza. And it infects practically every person exposed to it, unless he has been immunized by an attack of the disease. In this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles. Only a few will die, and those the victims chiefly of broncho-pneumonia which often accompanies a measles attack. But many will suffer the rest of their lives from poor hearing which measles often initiates...