Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominion Government's guest, he has been living with his wife Svetliana, his son Andrei and his baby daughter, in different places in eastern Canada. Always moving, he has been guarded 24 hours a day by from one to eight R.C.M.P. constables. When his daughter was born, his wife entered an Ottawa hospital under an assumed name and a Mountie posed as the father. Mounties shopped for his baby's clothes...
...boom in Guest Stars was on. Eight of last week's 15 most popular radio shows had at least one guest star. Altogether, the four networks carried more than 100 of them. For their Hooper-boosting services, they were paid a grand total of about $100,000. Individual guests pulled down as much as $3,500 in New York and $5,000 in Hollywood (perhaps because of the high cost of swimming pools) in cash, cars, refrigerators and whatnot...
Radio's big names are more than glad to pass out that kind of money. In recent months, with sponsors axing heaps of weak shows, most of the fixed stars have felt safer with the added twinkle of a satellite. And many a guest has been delighted to twinkle at the price...
...Last fall, when Jimmy Durante guested on the Ford Show, he was offered a Ford and a Mercury in payment. Though "mortified to dwell upon the thought" that there were three grades of guest stars on the market (Ford, Mercury, Lincoln-Continental), Jimmy insisted that he be known as the Continental type. The sponsor yielded...
Tony Martin Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Premiere of a variety show with Singer Evelyn Knight. Guest: Bob Hope...