Word: eisen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsenhower wrapped himself in mystery. At a press conference in New Hampshire he declared: "I don't want anything to do with politics." The same day, in Washington, Major General Floyd L. Parks, the Army's publicity boss, had issued a blast against the Draft-Eisen-hower-for-President League (TIME, Sept. 22). He also dropped a hint that Ike might not be out of uniform until next April, instead of on Jan. 1, as expected. Many a political observer had come to the conclusion that Ike wants nothing to do with the nomination unless it comes...
Once about the pleasantest place across the River, the Somerset's beautiful Balinese Room has started along the primrose path of two reviews a night to the music of Sammy Eisen, and no rest for the customer. The best-looking dancing spot in Boston, the Room trades fine food and service for healthy prices plus a $1.00 cover and $2.00 minimum after 9:30. Unfortunately, the new Somerset policy ends a short but promising tradition of good eating, drinking, and dancing, without interruption by padded divas or perspiring dance teams...
...soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...
...years later the team of Kaye & Eisen was still no farther than the borsch summer-resort circuit in the Catskills. Here, besides being straight entertainers, they were also what is known as "tumulers"-aides of the hotel manager who, on rainy days, were sent out to "make with the tumult" and, by distracting disgruntled guests, prevent them from checking out. Kaye & Eisen did their tumuling by chasing each other through the halls with meat cleavers, jumping into fish ponds...
...Eisen left vaudeville to become a Brooklyn chiropractor, and Kaye joined a traveling vaudeville troupe, went to the Orient where, acting in front of non-English audiences, he was forced to master the high art of pantomime...