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...nontipper out into the street crying: "No tip! No tip!"-employees around the country have by now established their own argot. A nontipper is universally called a "stiff," while in Boston he is also a "fishball." in New Orleans a "frog," in Seattle a "mossback," in Kansas City a "clutch," in Chicago a "snake" or a "lemon." Someone free with money is a "live one" ,or a "mark...
...Double (Paramount). Danny Kaye is one of a precious clutch of performers who can still appear alone on a bare stage and hold audiences from riffraff to royalty rapt for hours. Yet Hollywood insists on ballooning his Pied Piper image with Panavision, or multiple-tracking his slap-happy sounds, or painting simple comedy in exotic new colors. His recent films, including this one, have added enough gimmicks and gewgaws to throttle Danny's vintage gitgatgittle. What was once A-OK is now beginning to seem just Oh, Kaye...
When Kefauver had finished with Paxton, he turned to a clutch of Westinghouse executives including Landon Fuller, assistant manager of the Westinghouse East Pittsburgh Division. Fuller, still employed by Westinghouse despite a price-fixing conviction, swore that his intentions had been only the best. Said Fuller: "We thought we were doing a job for employees and customers. We wanted to keep people employed in the plant when volume was low. And we felt we needed a higher profit for research and development activities...
...crowd went wild and Grady Watts, in a clutch performance, hit Dave Nyhan on the crease to tie the score once again. Less than a minute later, Watts, covering the goalie on an out-of-bounds play, belted his stick and blocked the goalie's clear...
...retirement for the past three months, Challe apparently plotted his coup with Salan, who is in exile in Madrid, and three field commanders in Algeria. A squat, soft-spoken man, Challe arrived in Algiers only last week, and nobody gave his presence a thought-except the clutch of officers in on the coup...