Word: joey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaving it." The smile actually broadens a bit when M.C. Jack Carter snaps back: "Lewis is more than a Friar. He's really a stewing chicken." Between Rocky Graziano's remote snuffles and Jack E. Leonard's belligerent groans, the show seldom slows down. Comedian Joey Bishop's brief speech moves the audience to a fine double take once everyone realizes that Joey has finished. "I have been asked to talk about the generosity, warmth and honesty of Ed Sullivan. Thank you." exit Bishop...
...Joey Jay, a husky (6 ft. 4 in., 230 Ibs.) righthander from Lutz, Fla.. matured simultaneously in personality and pitching perspicacity. At Milwaukee's Triple-A Wichita farm (where he won 17, lost ten last year), Joey's temperament was forcibly improved through stern discipline. In 1956 he was socked with a $500 fine (later reduced to $250) for throwing his glove, stalking off the field and out of the park in disgust at an umpire's call. Last year, after a tongue-lashing from Wichita Manager Ben Geraghty for not trying hard enough, Jay took...
...signing most of the guests on Paar's show, O'Malley is well aware of the rules of the game. Forbidden are "Lindy" comedians-the brash, Berle-type gagsters given to dialect jokes and continuous excitement. Says Paar: "I'm not interested in comedians named Joey or Jackie-no rock 'n' roll, no jazz...
...Joey. The Broadway musical had a faster book than the film version but then it didn't have Frank Sinatra (TIME...
Lester Lanin, who has played for President Eisenhower's birthday balls and similar events, has set up shop in one corner of the quadrangular building, and his long-winded musicians stop but twice during the entire three-hour dance. My Fair Lady mingles with Pal Joey, white dinner jackets mix with black ones, red chemises mix with red jackets; but the lights blend all into violet. Some dance in the circle created by the shower curtain, while the jowly policeman at the door smiles benignly at the scene...