Word: chatteringly
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...Horse-Radish." "More platter, less chatter!" cries Manager Ben Strouse of Washington, D.C.'s eminently profitable WWDC, which features "Lucky Buck" giveaways. "All network radio is good for is to supply soap opera to a dwindling number of little old ladies weaned on that sort of thing." As for the independents' news coverage, Bill Shaw, manager of San Francisco's booming KSFO, snorts: "People are more interested in a fire down the street than in the Lebanon crisis...
...morning Mike swings out of bed at 6:30, goes down the hall to look in on the children, methodically counts heads as he passes from room to room. Then, midst the morning chatter and leggy tumbling of this brood, the Governor of Alaska hoists his three youngest children to the stately hardwood table on which, 91 years earlier, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward proudly signed the historic Alaska purchase with Russia (for $7,200,000) and, one by one, proceeds to diaper them...
Many programs predictably muddled through bloopers born of the green crews' clumsiness and uncertainty. Boom dollies were knocked over; commercials and credits were run twice, or upside down, or not at all; sound faded away or leaked sudden bursts of studio chatter and laughter. A few shows, regularly broadcast live, were replaced by film substitutes. But most programs-and the strike-rolled on as scheduled...
...beginning, vague, fey Dody, a dancing veteran of show business, could not utter an unfunny word in the show's informal panel chatter-and all the laughs seemed to strike her as a complete surprise. Paar sang her praises (a "small gold mine," a treasure "straight from the moon"), assured viewers: "Honest, this girl is for real." Soon Dody was getting heavy fan mail, interviews and $920 a week...
This kind of chatter is everyday lingo to thousands of dedicated missilemen who run the unique Spaceport, U.S.A., at Cape Canaveral, Fla. For a tour beyond the guarded gates of missileland, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Rite of Space...