Word: patters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...
...will learn that some TV pressagents maintain what they call their "integrity" by not smoking the sponsor's cigarettes and how a TV performer can build up a small warehouse of merchandise by judiciously dropping brand names into his patter. Finally, he will get some lessons in TV executives' lingo, the best of which might also be applied to the book as a whole: "I thought we'd just throw it on the floor and walk around...
...Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note of prosperous disillusion. "There won't ever be no patter of little feet in my house," drones one pickled tomato, "unless I want to rent some mice." Best of all, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee sing real well, and pretty often...
...Aviv, New York's junketing Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman was greeted at the airport by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce. Asked later by newsmen to comment on the Geneva Conference, onetime Ambassador to Russia Harriman gave an old hand's appraisal: "The same old patter comes out of the Victrola ... a certain familiar ring . . . Bulganin's reply [to President Eisenhower's inquiry about international Communism] was exactly the same as the reply I got in Russia 29 years ago . . . We must keep up our guard ... But I am delighted that the Big Four...
Died. Richard S. (Skeets) Gallagher, 64, onetime vaudeville headliner and fast-patter comedy star of stage (No, No, Nanette, Good Night, Ladies) and screen (Idiot's Delight); of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif...