Word: frisco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Patchen shines, and indeed where also his Frisco friends shine, is in the chuckle-chuckle material, the looney funnies, the incredible fantasies. In the New Directions volume, Patchen accompanies about a dozen pieces, under the heading "Limericks," with the zaniest sketches you ever did see. They look like a doodle you did in English 10, only not tragic. They're funny...
Died. Eugene Edward (Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset...
RAILWAY MERGER of profitable 1,800-mile Central of Georgia into 5,100-mile St. Louis-San Francisco Railway is being sidetracked by ICC. Examiner found that Frisco acted unlawfully in buying up 56.2% of Central's voting stock for $17 million, because it did not get prior ICC permission. If full ICC board approves, Frisco will be forced to surrender control of Central to triumvirate of Illinois Central, Seaboard, Frisco...
Tony, a balding Mario Lanza who didn't speak much English, had come over from the old country and made a killing on the California wine market. When the pressure of business subsided, middle-aged Tony saw he needed a woman, and sure enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed...
...Hell on Frisco Bay (Jaguar; Warner) The resident devil is Edward G. Robinson, a sort of menace emeritus who is invited by Alan Ladd, a cop he once framed, to retire from the daily grind to a peaceful chair at San Quentin. Eddie replies at some length: "Oh y-a-a-a-a?" Alan lets his right hand do the talking-and for a man who seems to have scarcely enough muscle to move his own face, he packs quite a punch. The effect of it, in fact, is almost enough to make a moviegoer believe that this picture...