Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limb. The governor's man is, like the Senator he succeeds, a newspaperman. He is Arthur Edson Blair Moody, Washington correspondent for the Detroit News. Long on familiar terms with both Washington's and Michigan's politics and politicians, 49-year-old Blair Moody is a pal of Soapy's, and on a fence-riding, independent newspaper, files Washington dispatches that are generally pro-labor and pro-Truman. When, during the Democrats' darkest days in 1948, he wrote a story touting Harry Truman's chances, his editor sent him a telegram which said: "That...
...running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned out to be an old school chum. "If you please, Vincent, behave yourself," reproved the commission's president, stiff-backed Joseph Caillaux. "Hey, President," laughed Auriol, "what would you do if you met an old pal from Mamers...
...Pal Joey (Columbia; 2 sides LP). With Vivienne Segal, of the original cast, helping out on such worldly ditties as In Our Little Den of Iniquity and What...
...daughter, and none of the big shots dazzled her. To little Margaret Case, the celebrities who hung around father Frank Case's celebrated Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan were just a lot of gabby customers. Doug Fairbanks Sr., who had just made his first picture, was a real pal and used to skip rope with her on the roof. But the bunch that ate lunch together almost every day, at a round table in the Rose Room, had little time for her; they were too busy trying to top each other's wisecracks...
...directions. Columbia has fattened its current catalogue (Kiss Me Kate, Out of This World, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) by recording older shows in their original spirit, mostly with new performers: 1931's The Bandwagon, 1934's Anything Goes (both with Mary Martin). Awaiting release: 1940's Pal Joey with the original's Vivienne Segal, and 1934's Conversation Piece with Author Noel Coward and Lily Pons. Decca is turning out record albums of straight plays with only minor cuts: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman...