Word: fisherisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christian find good in Communism? It depends where he looks, says Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. Speaking last week in London's red brick Church House, in the shadow of Westminster Abbey, the archbishop denounced "the black tyranny of ... atheistic and imperialistic Communism" in Eastern Europe. But he thought that Communism in the Orient might wear a different guise. Said...
...elsewhere. Adolph quit high school to work in the piece-goods business, later set up a woolen company with Sam, lost it, turned to manufacturing a mothproofing liquid, and lost that, too. Then the Rosenberg boys borrowed $100,000 from friends (among them: two of Detroit's famed Fisher brothers), hired 15 people and started making matches in a loft in downtown St. Louis. But they had little success until they hit on the idea of putting personalized ads for businessmen on the covers. Within two years (1929), Universal ran up $100,000 profit, has continued...
This summer Eddie Fisher got another chance. Suddenly in need of a replacement, the big Riviera Club across the Hudson from Manhattan called Fisher in, put him on as headline singer...
...still had the natural flow and phrasing which he had developed by singing in a Philadelphia synagogue, and the unsophisticated delivery which "I got," he says, "from helping dad hawk fruits and vegetables from a truck when I was a kid." When the reviews appeared next morning, Fisher was described as "merely wonderful," "a sensational singing voice and style," "terrific...
Last week there were more signs that Eddie Fisher was in at last. Victor had moved him onto its bigger-selling black label. Outside Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, the bobby-soxers were gathering to throb when their new boy does his stuff (five shows a day for $1,000 a week). With movie, television and nightclub bids rolling in, big-voiced little (130 Ibs.) Eddie Fisher seemed to have his big chance firmly in hand...