Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the credit belongs to Lucille, a redheaded, uninhibited comedienne who takes pratfalls and pie-throwings in her stride, manages to add an extra wriggle or a rubber-faced doubletake to each funny line. Cuban-born Desi Arnaz gets enough masculine authority into his role to keep Lucy from degenerating into a Dagwood and Blondie farce. Three writers turn out scripts that bring flashes of grown-up humor to such standard subjects as amateur theatricals and wedding anniversaries. Says Lucille: "We try to be an average married couple getting into unaverage situations...
...year, paid vacations ranging up to four weeks after 15 years, and a guaranteed annual wage, i.e., 30 hours' work a week for 52 weeks for workers with three or more years of service. The 650,000 steelworkers were not demanding "a larger share of the economic pie," but only what they considered a fair share. Where 47? of each $1 of steel sales went for wages five years ago, labor's share is now but 39?. Said Murray: "It has been whittled down crumb by crumb like the food at a third-rate boarding house...
...manner, though quick in judgment. There is little fat on his chunky (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) frame. He has what New Englanders call a "down-East memory," and uses phonetic spelling, e.g., his lunch chit at Ottawa's Rideau Club once read: "plane omelet and rasin pie." He is an optimist, especially about Canada. Of his first view of Canada in 1908, he says: "I knew right away that I wanted to be a Canadian. I liked the people, the atmosphere, the possibilities of a thinly settled country...
...Merry Widow," in modern dress, waltzed into Boston Monday night and will be receiving guests at the Shubert Theatre for the next two weeks. This up-to-date version of Franz Lehar's evocation of Alt Wien is just about as Viennese as Mom's apple pie, but it is still a good show...
...clanging metropolis of lathes, spindles and plentiful credit, fortunes are made in a few years. Most enterprisers expand frenetically, cut the pie in a quick, cold-eyed killing, then move on to bigger things. Declared industrial profits average 18%-but many a Paulista would not touch a deal for less than 100%. Taxes are low, and collection is lax. In an atmosphere as favorable to freewheeling enterprise as the U.S. in President Grant's time, 100% profit is an attainable goal. At least 500 Paulistas have made their million (in terms of U.S. dollars), and 1,000 more...