Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably the best female impersonator since vaudeville's late famed Julien Eltinge, egg-bald T. C. Jones, 39, has been working at his special skill ever since 1946, after he had abandoned study for the ministry, done a hitch in the Navy, and finally crashed Broadway. He earned critical raves when he brought his imitations of Tallulah, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis to Broadway in New Faces of 1956, did even better the following year in Mask and Gown, a sort of one-man one-woman show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima...
...when KTTV President Richard A. Moore astonished the Western Association of National Advertisers by offering prime time for a 13-week program of commercials -and offered to foot the bill himself. Moore was delighted by the association's flood of entries for the show, became more "convinced than ever that some of the most creative material on television today is contained within the commercials...
...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...
Where Author Vian's views might lie between these two extremes, no one will ever know. He attended a preview of The Spitter, took one look at his fantastic Trenton, and slumped in his seat. At 39, Boris Vian was dead of a heart attack...
...start of his sweep through Asia in 333 B.C., Alexander took Gordium and whether in a fit of impatience or as a calculated gesture sliced apart with his sword the legendary "Gordian knot," pride of the Phrygian priesthood, which no man before his time had ever been able to untie...