Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here Come the Girls (Paramount) casts Bob Hope as "the world's oldest living chorus boy." He thinks when he is asked to stand in for the leading man (Tony Martin) that at last he is flying high. Actually, he is just a sitting duck for "The Slasher," a fine comic heavy (Robert Strauss) who gnaws at his lines as if they were ripe black betel nuts. The whole thing is unfortunate for Singer Rosemary Clooney, who is still new to pictures. Almost every time she opens her mouth to sing, Hope shoves...
...Joggle Toys, intended as permanent wall decorations in the playroom. Dangling from each figure (e.g., kangaroo, horse and rider, quacking duck) is a string which, when pulled, sends the wall toy into action. The Joggle Toys were designed as an answer to the problem of decorating a child's room, which Arnold sees as "either throw-uppy cute wallpaper or nothing...
...himself on the winning side at last. He recovered quickly. In 13 years as Secretary of the Interior, Honest Harold (a nickname that made him squirm) became a national institution. His bristling incorruptibility, his old-fashioned reformer's views, his endless suspicions of all other politicos, his Donald Duck temper and acid-tongued campaign speeches made him a figure unique in the New Deal...
...will be a forerunner of talks with Malenkov. Churchill has been longing for a Big Three chat ever since he was denied Big Four talks. Now the Big Three at least would meet, but under a particularly nullifying circumstance. Laniel will be able to speak only for a lame-duck government which must automatically dissolve when France elects a new President -within ten days to a month after the Bermuda meeting...
Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally at home in the uplands of Wyoming, in the Vermont hills, where he mainly vacations nowadays-and in his Manhattan studio. When Pleissner is not hunting or fishing, he paints pictures of a highly successful kind. This week 24 of his latest, including the watercolors opposite, went on view...