Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advertised in the Hollywood Reporter, the House in Palm Springs, Calif, had everything: "Elegantly furn., new, modern, 3 brs plus 3 baths & guest house. Re-frige., air cond., heated and filt. pool. Artistically landscaped and compl. walled, unsurpassed view, exclu. south end location. Immed. poss." Sale price: $57,500. Owners: Eddie and Debbie...
...sandal set is that no woman alive sings jazz like Ella Fitzgerald. Ella it was who schooled a whole generation of vocalists to phrase and improvise like jazzmen; Ella, too, who popularized scatted lyrics and the word rebop. But Ella has always moved with equal ease through the palm-frond world of popular dance music, and Jazz Impresario Norman Granz set out to prove it by issuing a series of albums on his own Verve label featuring Ella in great pop hits. Latest addition to the series: Ella singing Irving Berlin...
Last week the Weather Bureau successfully tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...
...complain. But on the rest of the lot, business was lousy. End-of-season weather was spoiling it, even for the pig iron (Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, whip, etc.), the moneymaking rides that most carnies consider the backbone of their show. The crowd-pulling mittcamps (palm-reading and pocket-picking gypsies) were gone. The gypsies had pinched some hogs from farmers in the last town, and the Gratz fuzz (cops) had sent them packing. Billed simply as "Stella," for its leading stripper, the girlie show was doing all right-neither rain nor dark of night, only the mark...
...north in Ludington, Mich., Gene and Pauline Skerbeck were toughing it out with their Sunday school (clean, no girlie shows, no flatties). The weather was bringing in bloomers, and though Pauline burned blessed palm leaves in her trailer, the red ones were few and far between. A strip act might have pulled more of a crowd, but Pauline was against it. "We're Catholics, you see. I always tell people that ask where the girl show is that they should save their $1.50 and get their wives to take off their clothes and dance around nude at home...