Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McKay deals out homilies and wit like a prestidigitator dealing out cards, with such quick ease that the worn edges make no difference. Item: "We shouldn't run down the Democrats. I never made a nickel in my life running down the opposition. When I was selling Chevrolets. I never said a word about Fords. Heck. I didn't even know they made 'em." Item: "Anybody who quarrels with a newspaper, a traffic cop or his wife is just plain crazy." Item: "My folks were all Democrats. I come from a long line of Democrats...
...Editor of Poetry and an officer of the Modern Poetry Association, I want to protest against the article which appeared in TIME, July 12. Your note, under PEOPLE, purporting to be a news item about the resignation of Mrs. Borden Stevenson from the board of Poetry, contained this statement: ". . . Poetry magazine, the flat-broke association's outlet for its members' rhymes...
...company is being careful to avoid any moves which might embarrass the new government. The company's claim of $15 million as compensation for the lands expropriated by the old regime is still pending, but United Fruit is considered likely now to treat that as just one item in an overall settlement which it hopes to negotiate with the Castillo Armas regime...
...guest was the sugar-coated Pianist Liberace, who 1) mooned interminably through Debussy's Clair de Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with Skelton in a dance number, and 3) played straight man when Skelton came to call as a treblesome piano tuner. Item: Liberace, in his famed toothpasty smile, showed portraits of his four greatest inspirations - "Bach, Beethoven, Paderewski . . . and my dentist...
...splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen and Sam Levenson join Fadiman for the kind of lively gab that has not been heard on radio since the old days of Information Please. Item: Punster Cerf's line about Ireland's Poet George ("A E") Russell and an angry moment when "A E's Irish rose." The next step, in the normal course of events, is back to television. Meantime, NBC, in the belief that talk is cheap, is footing the radio...