Word: floorshow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deweymen forces were completely routed. In a radio interview, retiring Chairman Scott admitted: "I certainly don't think that Mr. Dewey ought to run in 1952." New York's Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, who ran the Dewey floorshow in Philadelphia, put it more bluntly: "We New Yorkers . . . won't have a candidate in 1952. We'll just sit back and get some of the loving for a change...
...records. Cugat credits much of his success to his female vocalists. He selects them "80% on looks and 20% on what goes into the ears. A man can't understand what my girl sings, but if he likes to look at her then I'm all right." Floorshow dancers are also handpicked. One of them, Cugat's niece, became Broadway Actress Margo; another became Hollywood's Rita Hayworth...
...been bumped off. The scholar, his double, must replace him at the Pelican, play upon the superstitious sensibilities of his killers, avenge his death by placing his fatal information in the hands of the D.A. (Otto Kruger). Just to help out in hard places, such as impersonating a great floorshow star when you know nothing in words of less than nine syllables, Buzzy's ghost demonstrates that he can enter and take charge of Edwin, body & soul. Complications develop, thanks to Miss Mayo, who has begun to interest Edwin even more than the smell of bindings, and to Pelican...
Through three volumes totaling 2,230 pages Lanny has played Master of Ceremonies for a mammoth floorshow version of 20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises...