Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widely held opinion. Nor is the show merely a catchall collection of kids exercising their ids. The lords of the Blue Forest are really a remarkable group of puppets created by ex-Actor George Nellé, 34. and Writer-Director Don Kane, 30. As Hostess Brigid and her small guests sit by and offer advice, creatures named Tugnacious R. Jones and Myrtle Flower ("She's an Eloise type") join an old, nasal-voiced wizard in such projects as constructing a popcorn machine that will not stop popping, and making a sewing machine that turns out marbles...
...fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives of Henry VIII to a party, how many guests would she have? (Answer: Nine-six wives and three sons: Cain, Abel, Seth...
...Behrman's favorite stories about Maugham concerns a visit to the estate of an American sculptress. The party came upon a gleaming white block of Italian marble, and Maugham exclaimed to the hostess, "That's the best thing you've ever done!" "But," the artist protested, "I haven't even started; it just came over from Italy. What on earth did you think it was?" "The Immaculate Conception," Maugham replied...
Miss Woodward was then asked whether she could compare and contrast her talent with that of other recipients of the Hasty Pudding award. The list includes Debbie Reynolds and Mamie Eisenhower. "A question like that presupposes an evaluation of their talent," she said hesitantly. "I guess to be a hostess like Mrs. Eisenhower requires talent. I certainly wouldn't want that kind of a job--but, yes, it certainly must require talent. Debbie and I talk about what we'd like to do. I'd like to play in a musical, and she wants to play dramatic roles...
This month Photographer Tsuchiya published his pictures. Samples: loinclothed priests playing mah-jongg instead of sitting in immobile meditation, a priest drinking with a bar hostess, two novices staggering along a Kobe street late at night with a barmaid between them. Tsuchiya quoted one priest as saying: "By listening to good music and gazing on ikibosatu [the living Buddha], I feel I can understand the teachings." This wisdom was Tsuchiya's caption for a photograph of the same priest happily gaping at pictures of virtually naked women...