Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baggy-browed Phil Baker took the $64 Question to Hollywood this week. As custodian of the renowned question-now so much a part of the national idiom that even $64 prose stylists avoid using it-and quizmaster of one of U.S. radio's most popular shows, Take It or Leave It (CBS, Sun., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), Phil Baker was ready to put both on celluloid. But there would be one slight variation: to suit Hollywood's philosophy, the $64 Question would become the $640 Question...
...program pays out about $250 a week, mostly to servicemen on leave and other citizens who can use the money. Men are much more apt to shoot the $64 works than women. Men are also more apt to get Phil Baker in the kind of trouble he encountered recently when a sailor, asked to give the navy definition of "noise," gave not "celery," which was right, but "Boston beans." Baker gave the sailor $64 and told him to get back to his ship...
Occasionally, when someone chooses the "music" category Phil Baker plays the accordion with which he rose to fame. But nowadays he does most of his accordion playing at home...
Admission to the rally, the gala event of Cambridge's bond buying efforts, is free to purchasers of war bonds at Cambridge booths. Besides the Glee Club concert, the rally will offer a pageant, music by part of the Boston Coast Guard Band, and entertainment by Phil Saltman, radio star. Door prizes consisting of sculptures, paintings, and crafts by Cambridge artists will be given...
...Department. He is the father of three, and wore, fittingly, a white collar in his appearance before the committee, which is investigating "whitecollar" working conditions. He was supposed to be just a minor witness, to illustrate the ponderous cost-of-living figures spread before the committee by C.I.O. president Phil Murray. But Mr. Alessi stole the show. He has had a bad time of it ever since 1929. Now things are worse, and he wanted the committee to know. Said...