Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entertainment world's most refreshing romance blew fair and warm as Cinemactress Debbie (Susan Slept Here) Reynolds, 22, floated off a plane from Hollywood at New York's International Airport and into the open arms and bashful buss of Crooner Eddie (I Need You Now) Fisher, 26. The combination of wholesome young love and two stirring success stories was a nation's delight. Daughter of a railroad carpenter, Debbie got into movies in 1948 when a talent scout spotted her wearing a holey bathing suit in a Burbank (Calif.) beauty contest (her family couldn't afford...
During the Queen's coronation, Geoffrey Fisher became the most widely known archbishop in history and something of a U.S. television idol (Fisher himself regards TV as one of the century's great evils, although Mrs. Fisher loves it). Ceremonial has never been his long suit, and he has been known to stop a procession to speak to a friend, but the world was stirred by the perfection of Fisher's voice and timing, his respectful suggestion of fatherly solicitude for a young woman, his clear demonstration that Elizabeth was Queen only by the Grace...
...fertilizer chaps who have been a constant trial to Archbishop Fisher is that gaitered fellow traveler, Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury. Foreigners are constantly confusing the dean with the archbishop. In dealing with the Red Dean, Archbishop Fisher has mainly contented himself with humor, e.g., "Dare I say that when he is at home, I wish he were overseas? And still more profoundly, when he is overseas, I wish he were at home...
...that Communism is a laughing matter to Fisher. In his quiet, casual way, he has rendered a devastating dictum on the subject: "There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian . . . The rest of the world are amiable non entities...
Tennant snapped: "I'm sick and tired of being followed!" A news blackout followed. Across the moat of privacy, reporters had Slim pickings: The only tidings that drifted out from the inner sanctum: a picnic had been called off because of rain-and U.S. Crooner Eddie Fisher had sent the princess a special recording of Happy Birthday...