Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...products to the Beech-Nut line (beginning with jam which his sister came down to the plant and made). These new products are the key to Beech-Nut's rising profits, for today the cured meats account for less than 2% of earnings. Biggest money-maker is chewing gum, which Brother-in-law F. E. Barbour handles. Other big items are strained foods, coffee, peanut butter, soup. Dropped along the way are tomato juice (1940), biscuits (1940), ginger ale, fish bait...
...facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like a fielder trying to catch a fly ball with the sun in his eyes." The No. 3 expression, unclassifiable, was for moments of hair-tossing, gum-chomping abandon, during which Drummer Krupa yelled over & over (he said): "Lyonnaise potatoes and some pork chops...
Well aware was Philip K. Wrigley that priorities would allow him no more aluminum for foil to wrap his chewing gum. So last week smart Phil Wrigley sold his remaining 500,000 lb. to OPM, thus simultaneously 1) struck a blow for national defense, 2) pulled his neatest publicity coup since he bought famed Pitcher Dizzy Dean for his Chicago Cubs...
...collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic crushing power of the German war machine in action, recorded on a crudely-filmed, undeniably authentic reel, is no stuff for comedy. A firm impression of well-trained might sticks in the mind much longer than fantastic terrorism...
...Cooper dropped his drummer's sticks during an act, Bing filled in with: "Hold the phone, there's been a nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes to go on. Jack Kapp, for whom Bing makes Decca records, recalls that The Groaner's singing is so facile he recorded the complicated Ballad for Americans in four hours. The same song took Paul Robeson three weeks...