Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over a Page One cut of a tweedy, utterly English six-footer named Chris Powell, the headline in London's Daily Sketch trumpeted: WIN THIS MAN! HE'S A WORLD SENSATION! After a four-day buildup and a spate of pictures showing Winnable Powell, with a pipe, a monocle and a succession of simpering show girls, the tabloid Sketch (circ. 1,283,000) finally broke the secret. This "elegant, enterprising, experienced man in a million," said the Sketch, would be rotated-for assignment-among the letter writers who could most convincingly explain what they wanted...
...speed film, a Hallicrafters radio (capable of receiving messages from Russia), and a variety of cryptic messages written in Russian and English. The most intriguing, possibly a code for an art-gallery rendezvous: "Is this an interesting picture? Yes. Do you want me to see it, Mr. Brandt? Smokes pipe and has red book in left hand...
...Author Meets Critic" panel, Soupy appears as Ernest Hemingbone, a grey-templed writer who fights a contrary pipe and indulges in literary guttersnipery. Soupy also fits cozily into the part of such irregular guests as a hooch-soaked Private Eye who couldn't find a clue in a roomful of corpses, an effete cowboy named The Lone Stranger, or a goateed bop musician who faints at the mention of Lawrence Welk...
Friend Missing. In San Bernardino, Calif., C. W. Bumgardner, advertising for his lost dog, said that she carried her own leash, growled at strangers, was good with children, and would "fetch slippers, coffee, pipe and TV log on request...
...through the House of Commons one day in May 1956, when the Liberal government's economic czar, Trade and Commerce Minister Howe, brought in a bill to ensure the construction of a gas pipeline from Alberta to Eastern Canada. The franchise had already been granted to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., a corporation controlled by U.S. oilmen; now Howe proposed to lend the company $80 million to start construction. In addition, Howe planned to set up a government corporation to build an uneconomic section of the line. Angrily, the Tories in the House tried to shout down the loan...