Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since Joe Palooka's girl, Ann Howe, got lost in the mountains of Wyoming after a plane crash last December, Cartoonist Ham Fisher has been flooded with more than 40,000 anxious inquiries and offers of help. They came from Senators, mayors, police chiefs, Legion posts. Even Harry Truman asked, when Fisher visited the White House: "When's Joe going ta find that girl?" By last week, Ham Fisher had had more than enough. In a special panel in his cartoon strip he assured Palooka fans: "JOE WILL FIND...
...presence of the upper classes in Germany; Americans like their music better when they can sit with a cigarette in one hand and a highball in the other. When I heard Walter Gieseking in Wiesbaden he was in the act of prostituting himself before such an audience. After ham-fisting his way through Debussey, he concluded (either as a culmination of his own bad taste or a reprimand to that of his listeners) with a beer garden style arrangement of Strauss waltz themes...
...From what remained of the municipal building in blasted Texas City (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the voice of a ham station piped into action almost immediately after the first explosion. For the next two days & nights, the amateur was one of the busiest lines of communication between the charred city and the outside world...
Shortly after the first explosion, Veteran Ham B. H. Standley (W5FQQ) of Houston rushed to the scene, set up his emergency unit and began transmitting messages. Samples: "Joe Vasquez not expected to live. Is in Room 323, St. Joseph's Infirmary [Houston]." "To Fort Crockett: send all available officer-type gas masks." "To Houston Boilermakers' Union: please send 50 bottles of oxygen and acetylene Texas City...
...Helen Hayes, for "the outstanding performance by an American actress on the current New York stage [Happy Birthday']" went the annual Barter Theater Award-"one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of; one acre of land on the side of a mountain near Abingdon [Va.]." To Actress Jinx Falkenburg, from some 50,000 admiring beauticians in convention in Manhattan, went the title, America's No. 1 Brunette. Actress Rita Hayworth (who used to be a redhead, and before that a brunette) was chosen No. 1 Blonde, and Actress Evelyn Keyes (who used...