Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goose Chases. Suddenly police switchboards jammed with calls telling of planted bombs. Detectives by the squad were kept on the run (107 times last week alone) to such public landmarks as Madison Square Garden, Grand Central Terminal, Yankee Stadium, the new Coliseum and the Empire State Building, sometimes came up with a firecracker or an empty piece of pipe, and only once (at the Paramount) with the real goods. Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor...
...sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies. In addition to the ass ridden by Soprano Munsel-a beast named Amos, rented at $30 a night-Actor-Director Ritchard has assigned himself a black charger for a grand entrance as the viceroy. This constitutes something of a concession by Manager Bing, who in recent years has severely cut down on the use of animals in opera-once as many as eight for Carmen, now nary a neigh. (When Amos was late for dress rehearsal, Bing sent around a sharp...
...Clientele. As it grew older. Roseland became even more decorous. In the '30s Brecker banned jitterbugging, and the number of hostesses steadily dwindled, finally (in 1950) disappeared. Tuxedoed bouncers (politely known as "housemen") prowled through the crowd to keep order. Last week's grand opening of the new Roseland (at 52nd Street, west of Broadway) suggested that henceforth it might be tougher to keep order...
...enormously expensive geological maps they prepare to pinpoint areas where they hope to find new oil deposits. And just as the U.S. wages unceasing shadow war against spies, so are oilmen on guard against cutthroat speculators out to filch their innermost secrets. Last week in Pittsburgh, a federal grand jury let the public in on one such cloak-and-dagger game: it indicted four men for receiving Gulf Oil Co. maps stolen by an employee, and trying to peddle them for prices reportedly up to $500,000. But even that kind of money was chicken feed...
...chiggers beneath the skins of network bigwigs and Madison Avenue operatives is the custom of the free plug, or "plugola." A TV comic, disk jockey or M.C. slips a brand name into his patter, e.g., "They said I was drunk, but it was all relative-Old Grand-Dad," and he or his gagwriter can count on the "payola"-a case or two of whisky in the next delivery. Offenses have occurred most persistently on the Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Robert Q. Lewis shows; yet the networks fear to order their stars to stop the practice...