Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pipe & a Pint. By mixing equal parts of glamour and inoffensive blandness, Lux Theater has won a weekly audience estimated at 30 million. The devotees have heard 500 top Hollywood stars broadcasting skillfully warmed-over movie scenarios. For the anniversary, statisticians reckoned that it all added up to 650 shows, 39,120 pages of script, 14,344 musical cues and 68,460 sound effects (including an imitation of a peacock's cry* by the late George Arliss...
...only a handful of Lux's devoted audience have ever seen their idols in the flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck is a "shoe-taker-offer." Don Ameche (with Loretta Young and Fred MacMurray, he is tied for the record with 21 appearances) drinks...
Referring to Harvard's competitive system, Griswold declared that "law is not practiced in a pipe-and-slippers atmosphere of informality," and called Harvard's "realistic" preparation the best for life in the competitive world of the courtrooms...
...Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went on to lay down a proposition that would be heard again & again in the off-year election campaign; he hoped, he said, that the U.S. could eventually raise its income from $200 billion to $300 billion a year-enough to bring the national average to $4,000 a family. "That...
Visiting in Chicago, pipe-puffing Guy George Gabrielson, new national chairman of the Republican Party, passed on to 140 Cook County party bosses a suggestion from General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I hope the Republicans now will develop party principles so that even a person as dumb as I am will be able to tell the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties...