Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spared the sight of women's hats, the nation's blind thought the hat hunt a whopping success: the 65,000 entries will be auctioned to aid the Braille Institute of America...
...maid to artists' model to become one of Montparnasse's topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing if I was sober") at the two-by-four cabaret called the Jockey Club...
Hedda Hopper's hat contest was a crowning success. For five weeks, on Tom Breneman's Breakfast in Hollywood (ABC, Mon.-Fri.,11 a.m., E.S.T.), heady Hedda asked for amateur hat designs, soon had 65,000 entries on hand. This week, with the same girlish glee with which she writes her Hollywood gossip column, Hedda announced the 103 win ners...
...same club. Cartoonists Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp), who draws Li'I Abner, and Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould have never met. But Al Capp has been admiring Dick Tracy from afar. Five years ago Capp put "Fearless Fosdick" into his Li'l Abner strip, a detective whose hat brim snapped and jaw jutted just a bit more than Tracy's. The compliment has never been returned, because Tracy is too busy catching villains (Itchy, Shaky, B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, etc.) to go in for burlesque...
Variety, the oracle of show business, tinkers with the language as a housewife alters a year-old hat. Last week it fiddled with the problem of political labels and how to make them over, make them...