Word: joshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman on his 75th birthday. The No. 1 dinner, linked up with 15 other parties by a closed-circuit TV network, took place at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, where about 2,000 Democratic Party faithful-plus a smattering of G.O.P. well-wishers -heard their jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R. died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch him grow to greatness." Monsignor L. Curtis Tiernan, chaplain of Artillery Captain Truman's regiment in France in World...
...wire agent booked her all over the country-in nightclubs, auditoriums, small-town theaters. Then she got on Tennessee Ernie Ford's TV show and Arthur Godfrey's morning show. On the Godfrey show, Miyoshi was noticed by Warner's casting director, who brought her to Josh Logan, who hired her for the role of Katsumi in Sayonara...
...earthquake, boy helps pay for funeral. It is lovely, almond-eyed France Nuyen (the Liat of the movie version of South Pacific) who goes farthest toward saving the show with her high-heeled stance, her eloquent hips and her intelligent impersonation of a tough but dreamy little tramp. Director Josh Logan is unworried. After opening night he was overheard saying: "This is the kind of play that even the people who talk against it will make people want to see it. They'll say, 'It's a lousy story of a damn whorehouse.' What difference does...
...tunes, and WMGM, which (scorning the cornier corn) stresses news and public services and pays for such square taste by lagging at fifth place in the ratings. One morning last week, in the heat of the competition, WMGM fell for an embarrassing hoax that gave WINS a chance to josh its rival all the rest...
...only defect of the program was Josh White, Junior. The Young White is a boy of sixteen with a fine voce and an indifferent guitar. Although he has improved considerably in the last year, he still must make up his mind whether he is too be a folk-singer like his father or a pop singer of the order of Billy Eckstine. He is unhappily caught between the two genres, with talent enough for either. He sings well, and his naivete comes as a pleasant contrast to his father, one of the least naive men around...