Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the pattern into which California presidential campaigning has fallen is the omnipresence of the state's own Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown. Already announced as a favorite son. Pat Brown, after a remarkably successful first year as Governor, is beginning to get serious notions about the 'White House. He is therefore extremely careful never to let the state's aspiring visitors get far out of his sight. As with Kennedy and Humphrey. Stu Symington's speaking dates and travel schedules were set up by the Brown-dominated Democratic State Central Committee...
...week's end the D.J.s were still collecting their annual dew, sloshing from hospitality suite to hospitality suite getting ready for an all-night party with top entertainers (Patti Page, Vic Damone, Peggy Lee, Pat Boone, etc.). The temperature in Miami was in the 80s, and there were circles of sweat even under the tone arms of the companies' endlessly blaring phonographs. But most of the D.J.s would stay happy for another year, and that is what mattered-for, as all the companies agreed: "Without you, boy, we're dead...
Spotting a CBS program director standing at the bar, he manufactured a name and introduced Pat: "This is Guido Panzini, a survivor of the Andrea Doria. He was on the bridge when it happened...
Guido & Grower. The gag had an unlikely beginning. It was born in Toots Shor's Manhattan saloon one afternoon in 1956, when Pat and a pal, Lynn Phillips, were relaxing from their jobs as time salesmen for NBCTV. They were already practiced hands at the dialect spoof. Pat had picked up a talent for mimicry from his father, a successful nightclub comic of the '30s, and he and his friend used their skill as a "sales adjunct" when they wanted to warm up prospects with a laugh or two. That afternoon in Shor's, the Andrea Doria...
...they moved it to another bar, were soon arguing with some Italian waiters that if Guido and other seamen jumped into the lifeboats first, they were not cowards, because it was their duty to protect those expensive little boats with the motors in them. Later, their lines more polished. Pat and pals turned Guido into a golf pro. introduced him to Singer Dick Haymes, who suggested that he had once played Guide's home course in Salerno. (There is no golf course in Salerno though Pat plays high-grade three-handicap golf.) At a party later, NBC Announcer...