Word: clipboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatre manager was standing in the middle of the bare stage; suddenly he pointed to something under the arm of one of the reporters. "Is that a camera?" he asked in a frightened voice. The reporter was startled. He brought up his arm and showed his clipboard. The manager signed with relief. "I'm sorry, but the way you were holding it, it looked like a camera. And the stage hands don't allow any cameras backstage. If they caught you with one here I could lost...
...offending reporter, holding his clipboard behind his back, said no, thank you, but they had to leave. The theatre manager invited the reporters to a bar across the street so that he could buy them drinks. The five of them went over and ordered scotch and sodas, but the bartender refused to serve the reporters and they had to leave after...
Producer Guedel is a small, fast-talking man of 40 who conceals his balding head under an ill-fitting toupee, always carries around a battered leather pipe box (full of $1 pipes) and a clipboard for recording his firecracker ideas. He calls each of his employees "vice president," likes to talk about his early years when he wrote glutinous radio shows for a fancy California cemetery. As a partner in John Guedel Productions (with M.C. Art Linkletter), Guedel has grown considerably in the industry since those days. For one thing, his programs are now much livelier; the biggest are Linkletter...