Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIFE, Amoco and Hamm's Beer) like the show because it is economical ($10,000 a week) and usually bags a respectable rating. Actors like the show, despite a meager $250 stipend, because it requires no preparation, is fun to play, and gives them a welcome chance to ham it up. Vincent Price credits it with changing his career: he could get nothing but "heavy" roles until producers saw him clowning his way through successive performances on Pantomime Quiz...
...stations are asking for the moon," protested the New Mexican's Managing Editor Joe Lawler. Invoking lunar logic himself, Lawler added: "If we list their programs as a service to readers, what's to stop the local grocery store from demanding that we list his specials on ham and potatoes?" Though the press-TV battle is widely debated in New Mexico, it was symptomatic of publishers' and broadcasters' sensitivity to criticism that neither the Associated Press nor the United Press filed a single story on the fight. Nor was it an isolated skirmish. On a grander...
...picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, spouted obscenities at the cops, cried: "What are you trying...
Roswell Gray Ham, retiring president of the college Litt.D...
...Ham, often a fighting word in the theater, can also have its savory delights. Two blue-ribbon samples: Mickey Rooney and the late George M. Cohan, Broadway's celebrated Jack-of-all-theatrics. Last week, serving up a double helping, NBC presented Rooney as Cohan in Mr. Broadway, a 90-minute biographical spectacular with all the trimmings...