Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your correspondents [Oct. 1] says Estes will campaign with the call, "Pie in the sky with Adlai and I." I distinctly remember Ike's thanking all who had been so kind "to Mamie and I," but I have yet to hear Estes use bad grammar...
Hero Taylor, at any rate, has a mighty appetite for humble pie. Every time the Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) gives him the time of day, the American lowers his eyes and smiles shyly, as if filled with gratitude and the sense of his own unworthiness. And when he meets the European Woman (Elisabeth Mueller). the young wolf of Wall Street stands there with his tail between his legs, like an Iowa farm boy suddenly confronted with Madame de Staël. The lady is obviously intelligent, or so the scriptwriter seems to think, because she never stops talking. She must...
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...Case. The accusations brought in unsworn testimony by the ASCAPotentates: 1) BMI (which is owned by 600 broadcasters, including all major networks) owns or subsidizes more than 1,000 music publishers and through them has influence over rising entertainers; 2) broadcasters also have a heavy finger in the record pie through RCA Victor (related to NBC) and Columbia (a CBS subsidiary); 3) wherever possible, the stations plug BMI tunes, ignore ASCAP tunes on the "sinister" premise that (as a BMI pamphlet once put it) "the public selects its favorites from the music which it hears, and does not miss what...
Everything was in apple-pie order for Lane's campaign. His ever-efficient staff had rounded up the signatures for and filed his nominating petitions, even posted, two weeks before he left Danbury, plenty of Lane billboards. The candidate himself was in fine condition for the race: four months of work in the prison power plant had taken off 20 pounds, left him trim and fit at 180. He was as confident as ever. "I have built up a record," he said, "of working assiduously on behalf of my constituents. And I think no one can criticize my record...