Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word message on suggested budget cuts (see below), Eisenhower even placated Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, the man who had tossed the first budget match. Clearly still a member of the Administration's happy family, Humphrey too headed South and, as the President's house guest, he was greeted at Bush airport by a buss from Mamie Eisenhower...
Tacoma Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower, 68, breezed into Washington all ready to sit on the opposite side of Griffith Stadium from his brother Dwight, 66. For the baseball season's opening game, Edgar was the guest of the visiting Baltimore Orioles (he had met Manager Paul Richards while vacationing near the Orioles' Arizona training camp), while Dwight was the first-ball pitcher and No. 1 rooter for the Washington Senators. Before Edgar left Washington, he hit the brotherly differences clear out of the ballpark...
Even the chitchat between contestant and quizmaster on Twenty One and $64,000 Question is composed and drilled in advance. On What's My Line?, the panel does not know the guest's occupation it is supposed to guess, but its members are prompted before air time with questions calculated to produce the funny double entendre. When Trust your Wife used celebrities as contestants, they were guaranteed a fee regardless of whether they won. "Of course," says a Hollywood agent who gets requests from quiz shows for celebrities, "they don't ask anything that will make...
Super-Showman Mike (Around the World in 80 Days) Todd turned up last week as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School. Todd's message: "Showmanship has left show business. Everywhere there are businessmen who are better showmen than we who say we're in show business." Though ex-Pitchman Todd is no man to tell a tip (crowd) what it does not wish to hear, there was no doubt that he had a point. As U.S. business gets bigger and more competitive, there is no business like showy business. To make even a small noise takes...
...Salle are confident of the company's soundness, hope to tighten up its administration and step up earnings. Says Di Salle: "We're moving in on a family that has several new marriages, and all newlyweds have to adjust." On the honeymoon will be an unwelcome guest, the SEC. It is investigating to determine why there were such big discrepancies in the public financial statements of the corporation and whether U.S. Hoffman stock was traded illegally...