Word: chichi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panama, he entered the National Police (the nation's only armed force) as a captain. At U.S. invitation, he later attended the famed old cavalry school at Fort Riley, Kans., where he became a crack shot and a good friend of the U.S. Pearl Harbor time found Chichi in a position to do his friends of the north a good turn; before midnight on Dec. 7, 1941 he had smoothly rounded up every German and Japanese resident of Panama-a timely precaution against sabotage of the Panama Canal...
...September day in 1938, Papa David Solomon of NBC's Life Can Be Beautiful gave shelter in his secondhand bookstore to a teen-age slum girl named Chichi and put her to bed on a pallet in the rear of his shop. This week, 15 years later, Chichi is only about five years older and she is still camped in Papa David's back room...
...Life Can Be Beautiful (known to the trade, through its initials, as Elsie Beebe) celebrates its 15th year on the air, Papa David (played since the beginning by Actor Ralph Locke) is still dispensing amateur philosophy; Chichi, as impetuous as ever, has her followers wondering whether her heart belongs to Craig, a levelheaded lawyer, or Craig's younger brother Mac, a headstrong young doctor who is hell-bent on modernizing the medical profession. Which does Chichi love...
...Word of Hope. Its tragic peak was reached after its co-writers, Carl Bixby and Don Becker, succumbed to listener demand and married Chichi to Stephen Hamilton, a crippled sweetheart. Later on they realized their mistake: "It didn't fit in with a young girl who was footloose & fancy-free. So we had their baby die of pneumonia after Stephen had taken him out in the rain, and then killed him off with a heart attack. For two weeks afterward we kept Chichi off the air in the interests of good taste, and that was that. He was never...
...Princess of France and three young ladies to come calling, is all satiric sideshows and sashayings, mixups and false beards. In the present production, the frills are multiplied-croquet games, early gramophones and automobiles, tea on the lawn, pink coats and blazers. At the start it seems rather chichi and cute, but in time it creates, and sustains, a genuine atmosphere...