Word: pitchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forecast for good TV entertainment was largely in the stars. TV's pitchmen offered Julie Harris, Cyril Ritchard, Walter Slezak, Lee Tracy, Hume Cronyn, Bette Davis and Peter Lorre. Unhappily, the stars were not always bright enough to twinkle through the cloudy scripts...
...scandal has reached such proportions that Congress is considering an investigation of the hucksters who promise phony bargains over the air. Last week in Los Angeles, seven shady TV pitchmen were charged with fraud. In New York, Attorney General Jacob Javits asked the state legislature for power to ask injunctions against bait advertisers...
Long before the first cyclists huffed into sight, the quiet provinces were invaded by a loud caravan of sound trucks and spielers. Everywhere, the ear was assaulted by pitchmen peddling Nescafé, Cinzano, Perrier water, soap flakes, rubber tires. L'Equipe sent a nightclub songstress to put on her act wherever the Tour stopped for the night. A few irritated sportsmen muttered that no one would have noticed if the bike riders never showed...
...unestimated mountain of "clothing for Korea" was sold on the secondhand market and the profits pocketed by the pitchmen...
...ordinary citizens who crowd by car, bus and train to the arid site of Minosa's entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming...