Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted...
...unnamed woman had appeared in the August issue of Reader's Digest. Two days later Caen printed a brief apology for the slip, and sent the magazine a check for $20 to cover reprint rights on the story-the same sum Caen has often been paid for an item by the Digest...
...salesmen name good things after it (a cool, refreshing glass of "Benevolent" milk) and Rangoon buses proclaim their "Benevolent" destination. U Nu is starting slowly to redistribute 10 million acres of land, and he is paying the landlords dusty but democratic compensation-one year's rent. Another Burmese item of note: a contract has been let for a steel rolling mill. The future looks so bright to them from Rangoon that the country's young Socialists tell Westerners they are more worried about the sagging world price of rice-Burma's principal source of revenue-than about...
...Chicago, Kukla, Fran & Ollie found a new home on the ABC network. A standard NBC item since 1948, the gentle Burr Tillstrom show originally ran for half an hour, five times a week. Then it was cut to 15 minutes, and finally, limited to 30 minutes once a week. With a new sponsor (Gordon Baking Co.), the Kuklapolitan players will go back to their five-day-a-week format...
Mozart: Motets (Soloists, chorus and orchestra directed by Felix Raugel; L'Anthologic Sonore; Haydn Society). Seven religious choruses-six jubilant, one melancholy-in Mozart's flowing counterpoint. Not up to highest recording standards, but a unique item. From Volume VII of the anthology's "Living History of Western Music from the 9th to the 19th Century...