Word: platter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star of the walkaway victory was Backyard Stupor, who reeled off gains of 45 and 65 yards to tally twice for the Plympton marauders. Behind good blocking and spirited team play, run after run crossed the platter before the Dutch Tile merchants could organize their defense. Only Minus Goodenough failed to score for the journalists in the free-for-all hitting contest...
...Helen Hayes, for "the outstanding performance by an American actress on the current New York stage [Happy Birthday']" went the annual Barter Theater Award-"one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of; one acre of land on the side of a mountain near Abingdon [Va.]." To Actress Jinx Falkenburg, from some 50,000 admiring beauticians in convention in Manhattan, went the title, America's No. 1 Brunette. Actress Rita Hayworth (who used to be a redhead, and before that a brunette) was chosen No. 1 Blonde, and Actress Evelyn Keyes (who used...
What gave M-G-M an even hungrier feeling was the sensational sale (some 800,000) of Pianist Jose Iturbi's recording of Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat from A Song To Remember. But most of the gravy from this platter went to RCA, which made it. M-G-M decided to cash in itself on recordings by its stars...
...enough, other film-makers were thinking of getting into the record business too. And there were whispers in Chicago that Sears, Roebuck, which only recently has started marketing its own discs through a record-of-the-month club, had a low-priced wire recorder almost ready to go. All platter-makers, including newcomer MGM, were keeping their fingers crossed-and their researchers busy...
...only hope that the American industry will once again set its sights on the target of better records and will turn towards quality when it has sated its appetite for huge profits. It would be refreshing again to have music for music's sake the rule in the platter business...