Word: pay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mahmud knew that he must pay for his crime. He rose in his prison cell at 3:30 on the morning of the day he was to be hanged. He made his religious ablutions by washing his arms, face and the insteps of his feet, prayed with the prison mullah, and sipped tea with relatives and friends. When one of his sisters broke into tears, Mahmud told her not to worry, said soothingly that "death comes to everyone in this world." Driving in a police car to Naserieh Square, where the public execution was to be held, Mahmud sang contentedly...
Hearing the news, the Times's Movie-Page Reporter Richard Nason phoned Drury in Washington. Asked Nason: "How much did he pay you?" Drury brushed off his fellow Timesman: "You'll have to ask my agent." Later his agent said Drury's take ran well into six figures...
...Aufbau, says Manfred George, has "never stressed the concept of collective guilt for Germany." This policy has paid off in cordial relations with the German government. In 1951 Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany, gave Aufbau an exclusive on the decision of the West German government to pay restitution to Jews for property they lost under Hitler...
Everybody's Doing It. The plug system is so well organized that there are lists setting out which firms pay what-and it would not be possible if U.S. business did not eagerly go along. Many a performer jokes about the practice. Arthur Godfrey slipped in a mention of a popular brand of shoes and then conspicuously followed by specifying his own shoe size. On his NBC show, Interviewer Tex McCrary enjoyed displaying people who happened to be clients of his pressagentry firm...
Admen buzz that one of Madison Avenue's biggest agencies pays up to $1,000 for dropping a mention of a client on a high-Trendexed show. A Hollywood public-relations agency spreads word that for $500 it can get plugs into the scripts of one of the half-dozen most popular TV comedians. One Beverly Hills agency that specializes in placing plugs, Fishell & Associates, sends out to writers and producers a long list of "clients" that pay it for arranging a mention. Among them: Howard Johnson, Betty Crocker, Western Union, Wheaties, Diners' Club, Gallo wines, Playtex girdles...