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Each contestant will read a short speech containing key words: oyster, oil, saw, idea, Long Island. Presumably, the girl who most consistently approximates erster, erl, sawr, idear and lonGUYland will be the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pygmalion | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...formulas: no drinking on the job; plenty of references to favorite people (like Pat Di Cicco and the Plaza Hotel's Colonel Serge Obolensky); a few good feuds, a generous salting of his copy with such phrases-some of them borrowed from other chefs-as snobility, cafelegant, upperclawss, Longuyland, the Rarefied Set. He also leased an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side (Maury Paul said a good address made all the difference). And one thing more: "I think it is very important," he said, "not to develop a pot belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eager Igor | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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