Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...single concession to TV, the chatter is usually preceded by a Gibson-wrought gimmick: Gibson sliding onto the set in a Mercedes-Benz, riding a horse across stage, standing in a snowstorm outside flinging snowballs, or giving heli copter lessons from a whirlybird hovering above the station parking...
Author Birmingham captures the centrifugal chaos of a world spun away from its moral center. His characters are not admirable, but they are believable, even when their actions seem contrived. But their talk sounds less like the dialogues of lost souls in limbo than the callow chatter of the tables down at Mory...
...verge of a new cinemacting career, Sloan Simpson, erstwhile TV Chit-chatter and ex-wife of New York City's onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer, freshened her makeup while lounging provocatively in a barber's chair at a Bronx (N.Y.) movie studio. Sloan's first movie role will be as a cop's wife in an "it-could-happen-to-you" dope opera titled The Pusher, now in production...
...best radio station on the air. Because Max, a chubby, balding man of 40, worked at nearby Holloman Air Force Base (like all 50 FM owners), his wife Sima handled the daytime broadcasts, wrote copy, answered the phone and managed to look after four children between platters and chatter. As feeding time grew near, the squalls of her baby son often punctuated her spot announcements, but nobody seemed to mind. After work (designing instruments for rockets and balloons) Max took over the control board; on weekends he canvassed merchants to sell time, traveled about to help install FM sets...