Word: lollipops
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...audition for a Kiddie Revue at a local radio station. Erma stayed on the program for nearly eight years, tap dancing and singing. "She was quite a little hoofer," says her mother, who still has Erma's signed song sheets for On the Good Ship Lollipop and I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter. Bombeck says it is obvious that the wrong Erma broke into show biz. When her mother, now a lively 73, began to appear with her on talk shows, Bombeck would tell the producers, "Don't worry about Mamma...
...cold San Francisco night in 1905, eleven-year-old Frank left a glass of lemonade on his back porch and awoke the next morning to find the drink frozen solid around a spoon that was in it. Nineteen years later, Epperson patented his "handled, frozen confection or ice lollipop." Dubbed the Epsicle, it was quickly a success, but Epperson sold his patent in 1929 to a small company that changed the name to Popsicle. "I was flat and had to liquidate all my assets," he said years later. "I haven't been the same since...
Duvall's own career has been a Cinderella story of sorts. At the age of 20, she was plucked out of Houston by Director Robert Altman, who was on location for the movie Brewster McCloud. Duvall, all lollipop eyes and stringbean legs, was recognized by Altman as a strong, but flighty American original whom he could fashion to his needs. He cast her in a variety of roles in seven of his films, including Three Women, Nashville and McCabe and Mrs. Miller...
...male animal in her first form-fitted dress. "Lolita," she says, "was born decades later, yet [she was] a twin of the thirteen-and-a-half-year-old striding through Crotona Park, passing the spiky red flowers toward a kingdom of mesmerized men." The reference to Nabokov's lollipop avenger is especially suggestive because Simon's book is reminiscent of the Russian master's own recollections of childhood, Speak, Memory. Both books play magic tricks on time; both end with a voyage about to begin; and both leave the reader anxious to sign on for more...
...neighborhoods of 31 cities trying to deter violent crime through their presence rather than through force, Sliwa said. He opened a Boston chapter in May, and 45 Angels have already begun watching the local subways, wearing the distinctive red beret and t-shirt that Sliwa described as a "moving lollipop outfit...