Word: pizza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeno, and put on a noisy sales campaign with company executives dashing around garbed in the Jeno symbol, a wide Italian hat. "Trouble was," says Paulucci. "we were selling a symbol, not a product. It was an utter failure." He lost $200,000, now sells only spaghetti sauce and pizza...
...dropped her 19-year option on ex-Husband Desi Arnaz (but retained half interest in their $20 million Desilu Productions empire), carrot-crested Comedienne Lucille Ball, 50, decided on a second marriage. Her new choice: Bronx-born Gary Morton, 44, a tall, dark nightclub comic whom she met over pizza on a blind date a year ago. Said Lucy, busily making arrangements for a Bergdorf Goodman trousseau, the services of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, and an Acapulco honeymoon: "I'm looking forward to a nice quiet life...
...whole catalogue of gifts bestowed on it by the Old World-the horse, borsch, Rudolf Bing, pizza, trial by jury, Pfannkuchen, the English sparrow and crab grass. Most arrived more or less by acceptable means, but the suburban affliction defined as "a grass with creeping or decumbent stems which root freely at the nodes" sneaked in. How it made the trip is a mystery. Perhaps, many years ago, it stole out of some Portuguese garden into the sea, and, just following its nodes, crept along the ocean floor like a living cable till it reached The Bronx. Not satisfied there...
...Women (Embassy). Sophia Loren is a fine Italian ham, but unfortunately most U.S. directors can't see the prosciutto for the melon. Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica knows better. In Gold of Naples he cast her as the main dish in a penny-a-pizza palace, proved her a comedienne with wit as well as It. In Two Women he demonstrates that given astute direction and the chance to play in her own language, Actress Loren can also fill a tragic role...
Probability and Statistics also provides interesting listening for students not seeking credits. Early morning viewers are greeted by tin soldiers, stuffed toys, building blocks, electric trains, ping pong balls and pizza pies, which Mosteller uses to illustrate the principles of probability...