Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formula. Strange product of this striving is the NBC show, Truth or Consequences, through which Procter & Gamble plugs Ivory Soap. Based on the oldtime parlor game, Truth or Consequences differs from rival questionnaires in that it penalizes participants who are baffled by its queries. Boisterous, rowdy, full of custard-pie humor, the program last week was hard on the heels of top-rating quiz show Information Please...
Recently two enthusiasts were persuaded to feed each other chunks of blueberry pie while blindfolded, making appropriate dinner-table chitchat as they went along. Another client was ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners...
...plane across this highest, windiest, iciest, most desolate of the seven continents. Against hardships which conquered the weakest and the unluckiest they won fame for themselves, large chunks of the frozen desert for their flags. Last week Chile found an easier way to share in the Antarctic Circle pie, cut itself a large slice by Government decree...
What Chile did accomplish was to complicate further the overlapping claims already crowding each other around the frosty pie. Chile's segment includes part of the U. S.-explored lands on the west, overflows the Argentine-British claims on the east. Since 1908 this has been the most contested portion of the Antarctic...
...couple in the lower income brackets who think they have won $25,000 until it all turns out to be a joke, and a poor one at that. There is plenty of nuthouse fantasy but enough reality to remind you grimly of Monday morning. Less satisfactory are relapses into pie-throwing burlesque, and the benevolent dei-ex-machina that turn up just in time to make everything come true: the $25,000, the private office, and the blessings of marriage to Ellen...