Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying you like butter on your bread or water with your Scotch. You've gotten so used to it you think you can't do without it. Some man sat down with a pipe and thought Sinatra up. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...
...Colonel Guy T. Viskniskki is celebrated as a newspaper doctor, an efficiency expert. He is tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...
...comic, was last week voted far & away the best performer on the air. Polled by the magazine Billboard, 324 U.S. radio editors also liked, as tops in their class: Information Please, Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, H. V. Kaltenborn, Bob Hope, Sports Announcer Bill Stern, the Lux Radio Theater, Guy Lombardo (for light music) and the New York Philharmonic (symphonic music). The editors thought Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph the outstanding broadcast of 1945, voted Kenny ("Senator Claghorn") Delmar the newest radio star...
Corwin seems somewhat worried by such criticism. Says he: "I am the kind of a guy who is terribly wounded by a failure. When I lay an egg, I am worried lest it become a chain reaction." He wishes people would stop comparing his new works with his old. "It's unfair to compare me with myself," he says. "My mind is involved and peculiar like the Pentagon Building, with several levels and ramps...
...best with in recent memory, is largely the work of three men; Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, who adapted the novel of the screen, and Ray Milland, who plays the part of the hero, Don Birnam. Wilder, whose handling of "Double Indemnity" began the current wave of violent, tough guy films, also directed "Weekend...