Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specialties-boy pianists, aged chorines and one-legged hoofers. There are also oldtimers like Composer Shelton (Some of These Days) Brooks and Guitarist Nick (Tip Toe Through the Tulips) Lucas; but they don't make things seem like old times. New, and nice to look at, is blonde Pat Williams, as the show's leading lady. Blackouts has its remarkable turns -a female contortionist, a set of trained lovebirds; but in the great days of vaudeville, they would merely have opened the show...
...such stories as the rise of Manhattan's Rheingold beer. It climbed from eighth to first place in Eastern beer sales largely by the use of pretty Miss Rheingolds, about half of them Irish "colleens" duly elected each year by beer drinkers. (Current Miss Rheingold: pert Pat McElroy.) In its battle with Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola plans to count heavily on the new television Pepsi-Cola Girl, Louise Hyde, a 24-year-old Chattanooga belle of whom one adman said hopefully: "She just makes you feel thirsty...
...three-dimensional realities. Readers will give him low marks on both counts. Eighteen-year-old Elliot appears only as a set of eyes & ears collecting gossip about the people around him; and the people themselves are named, framed with an anecdote or two, then written off in a few pat parenthetical paragraphs. With a long way to go before his peripatetic life story is brought up to date, Author Paul already sounds a little weary of the whole project...
Revolt in San Marcos offers no pat answers, closes merely by posing its problems honestly. If Author North had as much skill in creating a full gallery of credible characters as he has in drawing Carlos and his problems against the convincing background, he might have written a great novel. It is still a pretty good first...
...Pats & Brickbats. When a motion opposing the President's plan was offered, incoming President C. Herbert Marshall of Washington led the Southern bloc's assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...