Word: misters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but his dress suit cost as much as he earned. Then he went into the Army a private, and came out a lieutenant, and made enough money singing Red Ball Express in the Broadway G.I. hit Call Me Mister to pay for an encouraging Town Hall debut. His springboard to Aïda: success in Mexico City on the radio and as soloist at President Miguel Alemán's official dinners...
...Freeman is back in his office. Waiting for him are the key newsmen of the News Leader, prepared to have their brains picked by the editor. Each one is expected to have at least one juicy item a day. Freeman starts with the capitol reporter ("Mister, how's the Governor today?") and goes right down the line. No one smokes, because Freeman objects to the lingering odor (he dropped smoking years ago when he found that the buying, lighting, smoking and crushing out of cigarettes, "wasted" 8½ hours a week). Freeman also has a newspaperman's dislike...
...they had also admired conservative, 60-year-old "Calculatin' Coke." Coke looked and acted like "Mister Texas." As a youth, he had studied by the light of a campfire, and in the years since, he had been a wagon freighter, merchant, attorney, bank president, rancher. He had been in politics 34 years, was the only man who had been twice named Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. This summer, one of Coke's supporters urged him to get a helicopter, too. Said Coke: "No thanks, I'll keep my campaign down to earth...
...cost to build a modern opera house and restage the entire repertory? Billy's guess: $20,000,000. His proposed test question for every Met production: "Will it interest a man in the first mezzanine who saw High Button Shoes last night and is going to see Mister Roberts tomorrow night...
...last week Mister Crump was up to his bushy eyebrows in a slugging match. A smart Democrat threatened to break the grip Ed Crump has held on Tennessee's U.S. Senators for the last 15 years.* The man who dared the Boss's revivalist anger and self-righteous vituperation was big (6 ft. 3 in.) Yale-trained Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga, a hard-working Congressman with a prolabor, New Dealish record. "Red Pet Coon." Able, 44-year-old Estes Kefauver jumped into the senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator...