Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, eying her towering cake, she paid homage to the three people most responsible, besides herself and Husband Desi, for keeping the show on top of the heap. Said shrewd Comedienne Ball: "I love them dearly, I appreciate them daily, I praise them hourly, and I thank God for them every night." Everyone in the studio, from stagehand to sponsor's representative, knew that Lucy was talking about Chief Writer and Producer Jess Oppenheimer and Writers Bob Carroll...
...when Hecht looks back on it all, he laments the passing of those "merry," "wanton" days. True, he went on to make a heap of money on Broadway and in Hollywood, but this, he says, was cold comfort because he suffered terribly from "a nostalgia for poverty." He gets some comfort out of the somewhat mistaken belief that until he spoke up in 1939 "no voice of any importance anywhere" had protested against Hitler's butchery of Jews. He is also proud of having backed Palestine's Irgun terrorists so vigorously that he found "British spies among...
...Moslem League from office, leaving it only ten of 309 seats in the local legislature. Into power came a comic United Front-as diverse a group of politicians as ever made common cause-ranging from an Orthodox Islamic party to a Communist outfit on the left. Atop the uneasy heap as Chief Minister sat old (82) but popular Fazlul Huq, who campaigned for election by announcing: "I love you all, and if you love me, you will vote...
...hand at making Joseph talk. "I gave him about four blows on the back and buttocks," Van Schalkwyk said. Joseph still denied stealing. Pieter and Petrus then bound his hands and feet and slung him horizontally between two automobiles. When they cut him down, Joseph fell in a heap...
Forty-one-year-old Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Herman was back in town -and back on top of the musical heap-with his Third Herd, the most versatile band he has ever...