Word: hawkinge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But no matter how hard the public is to please, or how hard-to-sell the picture, Hollywood knows that it can count on exhibitors. Last week, as if to keep in trim for tougher times ahead, theater managers were pushing movies with all the zeal, noise and logic of...
Typical are the contortions of Lucky Strike cigarettes, which prance through a complex square dance. Rheingold beer cans and bottles troop by a reviewing stand, while overhead drones a beer-keg blimp. Sheffield, hawking a soft drink, takes an inexpensive way out: a paper orange with a metal base is...
Richard K. Russell '46 and Stuart P. Greene '48 spontaneously undertook the canvassing Wednesday, when they saw Wallace Committee members hawking anti-UMT petitions in the dining hall. Heated arguments arose between the two factions, until Senior Tutor Robert W. Rogers finally asked Russell and Greene to leave.
Newsboys dashed in among the tables, hawking fresh "editions" of the Examiner with screamlines: LOUELLA SURROUNDED! FILM LEADERS IN TRIBUTE TO Miss PARSONS. About midnight, the preliminaries over, the guests settled down to watch the entertainment (Dinah Shore, Edgar Bergen, Eddie Cantor, etc., etc.).
Things were seasonably merry on the Christmas-tree farm at Hyde Park. Elliott Roosevelt, who owns the business with his mother, sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a...