Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nebraskan Politesse. Some of his seeming ad libs come from a computerlike retrieval system. He has apparently never forgotten a joke, constantly spins off variations on old ones. Once, when he and Exercise Expert Debbie Drake stretched out on mats for a demonstration, he asked: "Would you like to leave a call?" Last month, five years later, he was still using the same line when Singer Roger Miller was doping off during a discussion. Similarly, Carson's L.B.J. inaugural gag "As I was telling my bellboy, Dean Burch," was transformed a month later, during a CBS upheaval, into...
...Walter, at Manhattan's Drake Room, who has patrolled the bar beat for 30 years, is generally considered the dean of cocktail pianists. A sometime composer, he plays novel and harmonically inventive arrangements, numbers among his devotees such celebrities as Noel Coward and Lynda Bird Johnson. Sipping gin and Coca-Cola, he holds forth six nights a week from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., earns $20,000 a year. He cannot abide sing-along customers, discourages them by "changing keys so often that they become confused." - Ernie Swann, at Detroit's Salamandre room, prides himself on living...
...since 1578, when Sir Francis Drake sacked Cadiz and sailed away with 3,000 casks of the rich, golden drink, have Spanish vintners been so outraged by British treatment of their proudest export - sherry. In London's Royal Courts of Justice, Spanish and British wine merchants are arguing a question that, depending on who loses, could sour a big business. The question...
...housewares men scrambled as best they could. Some salesmen did business out of attache cases or in hotel rooms; former White House Chef Rene Verdon, who was supposed to perform at McCormick Place for the Scovill Manufacturing Co., whipped up gazpacho and apricot mousse in a suite at the Drake Hotel...
...straight season with The Star Spangled Girl, who is an ex-Olympic swimmer, while Comic Woody Allen has turned playwright with Don't Drink the Water, a comedy that laughs at the cold war. Gertrude Berg will play a theater-party agent in The Play Girls, and Alfred Drake and Joan Greenwood will star in a comedy about Hamlet's strolling players...