Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foam & Tears. John Wilkes Booth had turned up in the studio that night carrying a press card, Paar informed the audience. As for the disputed joke, "I only talked to you about a water closet; Walter Winchell would have peeked through the hole and told you who was there." Later he called Winchell lecherous and "a silly old man who could not admit under oath that he writes his own columns," added a few more phrases so barbarous that NBC cut them from the tape-with Paar's assent. (Winchell counterattacked toward week's end, wrote: "St. Paarnard...
...list was Dorothy Kilgallen, like Winchell a Hearst columnist, and in Paar's opinion, "a puppet. She never moves her lips when she talks. She must use Novocain lipstick." Frank Sinatra spat on the floor when he mentioned her on his show, but she only made Paar foam at the mouth...
Newspapers, including Buenos Aires' Clarin, genially kidded the government about the sub for a while. But as more than 30 planes and a dozen warships flailed Golfo Nuevo to foam with showers of depth charges, as troops in full battle dress moved up to the bleak Patagonian shoreline, as the Puerto Madryn air and naval base at the gulf's head went on a war footing, as U.S. planes rushed emergency equipment to the scene, the skeptics stopped in mid-snicker. Most important of all, President Arturo Frondizi took it seriously, and presumably the navy would not dare...
Then Thomas quietly asked the officials to put the bar at 7 ft. 2¼ in. He nearly made it. On his second try, he was lying on his back in the foam-rubber pit before the quivering bar followed him down. "My timing has to be straightened up," said John Thomas. But he had proved that he was still the world's finest high jumper...