Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gags and trademarked nitwitticisms that made her vaudeville's, radio's and TV's longest-suffered, best-loved wife. Her Irish father, a song-and-dance man from San Francisco, named her Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, and at three, Gracie joined his act in top hat and red whiskers. In 1922, after hunger had urged her into secretarial school, she caught the down-at-heel act of George Burns (real name: Nathan Birn-baum). George promised to feed her, even became her foil when Gracie got all the laughs. They were married in 1926. Six years...
Even though Sherman Adams is a Republican, I'm sure he can do better than what he looked like in your Feb. 3 issue. What a hat...
...subcommittee had a guard on the door, in the person of Staffer Stephen Angland, to prevent Schwartz from taking any more of its property. Schwartz raised his arms above his head, turned to newsmen and cried: "These newspapermen are witnesses that I am taking only my coat, scarf and hat. May I take my wife's photograph from my desk, or this chocolate bar, which is a present for my five-year-old son?" Said Angland: "Please get out of here." Shrieked Schwartz: "I'll sue you if any of my personal property is missing." Then he stomped...
...easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half a dozen State Department officials, stepped out in top hat and tails for the formal White House dinner for diplomats. Everywhere he went, he displayed a seemingly unerasable smile...
...Hat Trick. In Richmond, Joseph Linisus Hall, 35, settled for 20 years on an armed-robbery rap, complained bitterly that someone had stolen his $35 Homburg and tie, argued: "I might not get to use them for a while, but it's the principle of the thing...