Word: homeyness
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Poisons Out. The day begins with John A. Gambling, who can out folksy all his competitors in handing out homey chatter on gardening and pets, giving advisories on schools closed by weather, reading notices of church suppers, rummage sales and ice cream socials. Almost singlevoicedly, Gambling comes as close as anyone can to transforming New York Radioland into a single, small town community. He plays occasional records by genteel orchestras and hearty sing-along groups. When his show goes off the air at 9 a.m., there is no more music on WOR for the next seven hours...
...much of the paper's shorter material is useless. Inconsequential one-paragraph news stories merely add to the welter of material, and the more homey ones are reminiscent of Grit, a family weekly that used to specialize in colloquial good will and pictures of giraffes. If there is anything this country doesn't need it, is another Grit...
Grainger Weston has opened a homey variation on the prevailing theme: a cottage colony for the two-week visitor who has not yet made up his mind to build. Once he is accepted and has agreed to the bill (minimum: $2,000 per couple), the guest's wish is Weston's command. "Weekend visits to other hotels, sightseeing by private plane, deep-sea fishing, champagne for breakfast-anything he wants is on the house." promises Weston, adding expectantly, "and his neighbor may be Prime Minister Macmillan...
Seasonable Start. In many places, today's Christmases are still rich with those old homey flavors-though White Christmas threatens to supplant Silent Night, Christmas trees glitter with baubles, bangles and winking lights that Grandfather never dreamed of, and, for some, dinners at Howard Johnson's have replaced the huge old feasts...
Ever since the Saturday Evening Post merged with Respectability, the association has proved mutually profitable. Looking at the naughty but innocent urchins on its cover, the thrilling but insipid fiction in its pages, the homey cartoons, the clever "Perfect Squelch," and the biting but conservative editorials, one wonders whether America was conceived in the Post's image, or vice versa...