Word: jockey
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...even as observers, in the forthcoming Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston, Ill.], I wondered, as I always do when I read about religious disputes, if the men of God aren't forgetting that their job is to teach men the good life, and not jockey for position in some clerical Executive Suite. Gentlemen, let's not argue about who has got a seat closer to God, but how to live more nearly according to His wishes...
...great tradition of American political oratory extends all the way from Patrick Henry to Disk Jockey Lee ("Three-D Lee-D") Dorris, who last week was hired to plug the candidacy of Cayce L. Pentecost for Public Utilities Commissioner of Tennessee. A sample of Dorris' exposition of Pentecost's merits: "Greetings, all you hep cats, gators, lame janes and dream queens. This is Lee D speelin' at you about a real gone cat from Goneville, Cayce L. Pentecost, a real boogie in the know. He's no square from Chicago. Cayce Pentecost...
...year-old lowan reads earnestly in a subdued, husky voice, glancing from page to camera like a casual host reading to guests in his library. What distinguishes Nordine's shows from others like it is the flashing telephone by his side. He has adapted the disk jockey's request-format for poetry and made it work. When he finishes a poem, he picks up the telephone, listens to a new request from a viewer, and makes small talk while he leafs through his library to find the poem or passage wanted. Now for Nordine is broadcast after peak...
...ingredients of good show tunes come from requirements of staging, action and pace, and as a result relatively few show tunes become pop hits. But last week, no fewer than three tunes from The Pajama Game, Broadway's brightest musical of the season, were tweaking jukebox and disk-jockey fancies: a slinky, satirical tango called Hernando's Hideaway was high on the bestseller record lists, a rowdy novelty called Steam Heat was also on the lists, and the show's big ballad, Hey There, suddenly showed signs of becoming...
...Walther Moreira Salles is donor of a Picasso, a Degas and a Modigliani; Sugar Magnate Fulvio Morganti is down for a Utrillo; Financier Adriano Seabra gave a Titian. In all, persuasive Chato has roped in 381 donors, including nine banks, 38 industrial companies and Sao Paulo's Jockey Club...