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...Holliday walks in out of the prairie dust. Kate Elder, now off the line and making a home, looks up from her work. "Hiya, bones," she says. Hello, bitch," he smiles...
Rocky is a happy, energetic campaigner. In the past two weeks alone, he has lost 10 lbs. He winks and grins and small-talks his way through crowds, often forgetting people's names but not letting it bother him: "Hiya . . . Best of luck and all the way ... Hi, girls, that's the way ... Gee, great... I wanta tell ya, yes, sir." Last week Rockefeller and Wife Happy danced to The Sidewalks of New York on a sidewalk in Cincinnati, while a friendly crowd gathered around...
...comedy into his act. Straight man: "Where do the bugs go in the wintertime?" Hope: "Search me." Such thigh-slappers somehow emboldened him to try it as a single, and soon he turned up as a blackface emcee. Before he was 30, Bob (a name he thought sounded more "hiya fellas" than Les) was playing the Palace. Later, he was billed with another vaudeville hopeful, Bing Crosby. In his first Broadway show, Roberta, in 1933 (with Fred MacMurray and George Murphy), Hope played a Joe College-type bandleader. His best line was pure Hope: "Long dresses don't bother...
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...months or years it can take a case to come to trial. Too often the problem is delay in the law's enforcement-the interminable minutes it can take to reach the police. In an age of computers and digit dialing, it may be easier to phone "Hiya" to a pal in Addis Ababa than to call "Help" to a cop a few blocks away...