Word: hams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart," said Nathan. Then he had an idea. Maybe those calls were made by Al Snyder, Larson's chief assistant. He and Snyder were good friends. "I used to go up to the office [Snyder's] quite often. I used to bring up cheese and some ham and some bread, and sit around and have a little lunch there...
...Door (Universal-International), remotely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's short story, The Sire de Maletroit's Door, is a creaky costume melodrama that lets Charles Laughton wallow in villainy up to his ample jowls. The film itself is puerile stuff. But Actor Laughton, who slices his ham with stylish zest, makes it fun to watch whenever he looms into sight...
...letting them draw their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from a ration can, one G.I. sighed happily: "Man, this is pure heaven...
...made the critics and audiences sit up. Having discovered what was good for her, the next summer she talked herself into the cast of a West Coast Rose Marie, and worked hard on her comedy timing and spoken lines. By then she had discovered that she was "an incurable ham." In the winter, she was ready to run away with Fledermaus ("You wouldn't think you could have that much...
Robert Taft was in Chicago, heart of the Taft country, to help Republicans raise money and to further his candidacy for the presidential nomination. For 30 hours Illinois Republicans reverently escorted their man on a whirlwind schedule from ham-and-eggs breakfast to political confab to press conference to lunch to cocktail party to dinner. At the press conference the candidate was affable and at ease, even when the touchy questions came up. What if General Eisenhower seeks the Republican nomination? "I don't think it would make much difference," said Taft. "The people...