Word: joey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...
Hitting all the flat notes of "Abie's Irish Rose," this caponized musical comedy is distinguishable from a high-school senior show only by the tunefulness of Sammy Fain's songs and the occasional appearances on stage of Miss Vivienne Segal of "Pal Joey" fame. And since Miss Segal isn't visible for more than 20 minutes, one wonders why she ever became enmeshed in this melange of heavenly half-backs, very un-Celtic wans of the Fighting Irish, and the 1946 Army-Notre Dame game...
...floozies, got a thorough quoting-over from New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him at a bar. O'Hara by Wilson: "If I write any extended work, I gotta goddam well get offa the booze. . . . Well, I'm going to level with you about Pal Joey. You are a guy that's got to be on the eerie, and you heard I wrote it while I was on the sauce. I didn't. I was sober ... I started [on 'a real beauty'] Thursday. By Saturday morning I'd drunk myself sober...
Joseph E. ("Pal Joey") Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., came to the Reds' rescue: "Russia in self-defense had every moral right to seek atomic-bomb secrets through military espionage, if excluded from such information by her former fighting allies...
...seventh day, a 55-year-old man in Passaic, N.J. asked Joey Hicswa's parents to write the Government "and ask them if I could take Joe's place...