Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remake the fabulous panorama on Flushing Meadows. He simply changed its atmosphere, discarding the austere conception of a World of Tomorrow, promising in its stead "a welcome as sincere and friendly as that of the old-fashioned county fair." Chummy, folksy releases cascaded from the offices of Leo Casey, the Fair's clever publicityman. Messrs...
...Gibson & Casey created Elmer (in the person of a Brooklyn actor), set him forth as a slightly paunchy, wide-eyed, folksy prototype of a supposedly average Fair-going U. S. citizen. Day before his Forty Fair opened, Harvey Gibson made no predictions. Said he, disparaging the importance of "mere numbers": "If everybody who comes to the Fair has a good time, we will be satisfied."* By that homey standard, Mr. Gibson's opener last week was a huge success...
Homiest touch: the float bearing Elmer in the Grand Parade got lost. Said Publicityman Casey, watching Elmer & attendants muddle down a sidestreet: "I admit it's corny, but I love it." Paid admissions (191,196) were 7,595 under the first-day Whalen total. More important to Messrs. Gibson & Casey was what their guests would have to tell millions of other U. S. Elmers about the Forty Fair: ¶ Room rates average lower than at the 1939 opening. The Fair advertised: 80,000 hotel rooms at $1.50 to $3; 170,000 between $3 and $5; 200,000 more...
Some ten thousand men of Harvard--not to mention nearly half of Cambridge's female population--jammed Sever Quadrangle last evening to hear Conductor Woodworth lead his Glee Club through a program which packed plenty of musical oomph. "Casey Jones" rode the rails again, while Handel's "Samson" buffeted the pillars of Widener. Judging by its tumultuous applause, academic Cambridge clearly appreciated the first of these free, outdoor concerts...
...Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick passage to the scene last week as the German Legation warned local newspapers to handle Allied news with caution, to "keep entirely to the truth-loving communiqués of the German High Command...