Word: chitchatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearing on a TV chitchat show in Chicago, Boston Pops Orchestra Conductor Arthur Fiedler was hesitantly asked if he dislikes any special kind of music-such as, maybe, rock 'n' roll. He astonished many adult listeners by replying: "I like rock 'n' roll-a certain amount of it. I think that's completely American...
...torchy, slickly phrased reading to such old standbys as Nice Work If You Can Get It and My Funny Valentine, and less familiar numbers, e.g., Guess Who I Saw Today? The voice is too anemic for the big, strutting talk, but just right for the languorous, blues-flavored chitchat of a girl who has been there before...
...question). Person to Person (sponsors: American Oil Co. and Hamm Brewing Co. alternating with LIFE) makes its pitch mainly to viewers who want to rubberneck in celebrities' homes. It deliberately casts Murrow, sitting in a Manhattan studio, as a discreet electronic guest whose job is to make polite chitchat, not ask probing questions. Murrow's own discomfort is sometimes visible, but he sold Person to Person as a package to CBS this year in a capital-gains deal, thus is undoubtedly committed to go on with it. The show does have what one frequent viewer calls an "idiot...
Legit Services. That and other similar quotes, Miller replied last week, were "isolated portions of my testimony." Mitch Miller, a many-sided man about music (besides being Columbia's A & R man, he conducts recording orchestras, arranges songs, produces TV commercials, presides at a Sunday chitchat show, and plays a first-rate oboe), argued that he got his fees for legitimate services, e.g., "editing" songs, fixing up lyrics...
...Even the chitchat between contestant and quizmaster on Twenty One and $64,000 Question is composed and drilled in advance. On What's My Line?, the panel does not know the guest's occupation it is supposed to guess, but its members are prompted before air time with questions calculated to produce the funny double entendre. When Trust your Wife used celebrities as contestants, they were guaranteed a fee regardless of whether they won. "Of course," says a Hollywood agent who gets requests from quiz shows for celebrities, "they don't ask anything that will make...