Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columns to pose a question to his readers: "One disk jockey so far hasn't discussed the fact that he wrote for the Daily Worker under a nom de Commie." Winchell had no intention of giving away a hot scoop like that by mentioning a name. The description fit nothing known about Gray, but if readers wanted to think Winchell and O'Brian were talking about Gray, it was apparently all right with them...
...morning, rested and fit after his vacation, he appeared at his desk in Denver's Brown Palace Hotel, called a staff meeting. First of all, said Ike, he wanted everyone to wear "a ready grin . . . Confidence is required in any battle. I'm confident and I want all of you to be confident. In Europe, I sent some otherwise able leaders home because they went around all the time with long faces...
...bands used to take their personality from the improvisations of the front men -Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, et al.-and the orchestrations had only to fit into the leader's style. Nowadays, most bands get their special character from the arranger's musical personality, and the musicians just sit there and play the notes he writes. The most recent and one of the most original of the arrangers' bands, launched last week by Victor: the combination of Ed Sauter, 37, who wrote such items as Benny Rides Again and Superman for Goodman, and Bill Finegan...
Snug Socks. In New York City, Esquire Socks introduced one-size nylon Expand-O socks which it claims will fit any man's feet. The nylon fiber is made by a secret process that gives it an elastic quality, permits the socks to expand evenly so that they do not cramp the feet. Price: $1.50 a pair...
When Nero, in a fit of rage, orders the Praetorian Guard to toss Helena from a tower, Basil heads home to faithful little Deborra, who is waiting for him back in Antioch. In no time, they are walking the dog together and billing & cooing over a hoped-for manchild. As for the chalice, it is soon stolen, never to be seen again, but a "miracle" enables Basil to finish the casing: he sees, and carves on it, a vision of Jesus. Author Costain's own vision of all this comes pretty close to reducing early Christianity to soap opera...