Word: plattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Martin Block, 64, radio's original platter and patter man; during heart surgery; in Englewood, N.J. "It's Make-Believe Ballroom time," purled the theme song. "Put all your cares away." And millions did-to the tunes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial...
...endorse the pause behind PAUSE. After acknowledging but politely disclaiming his old supporter's hopeful postscript, which indicated that the New Yorker was still his personal choice, Rockefeller bluntly replied that unless the moderates plan to "simply deliver the nomination to the other side on a silver platter," they had better fall in quickly behind Michigan's George Romney. "He is," noted Rockefeller, "consistently running around ten points ahead of Lyndon Johnson in the polls throughout the country. He is the first and only Republican since General Eisenhower to be in that happy position."* Rocky added: "I hope...
...gold lining in Adam Powell's recently beclouded life has been the prospect of vast profits from Keep the Faith, Baby, his platter of preachy patter. In January, Powell bragged that the record would sell more than a million copies, earning him $280,000 in royalties. But-relative to Powell's boast-the record has bombed. At most, 103,000 have been sold, and sales now are down nearly to nil. At the Record Shack on Harlem's 125th Street, Manager Buddy Franklin said that even at $1.10 off the list price of $4.79, Faith has become...
...infamous Pretty Pussy hotel. The cleft-palleted innocent, Camille (Howard Cutler) is a well-juiced womanizer. Even the wife of the hotel manager is not the frowzy pile of heavy flesh she seems, for there was a time when she was served up nude on a silver platter. Flea is a wildly funny play--but not a kind one. Above the laughter you can sometimes hear Malvolio crying for help in his dark cell...
...poor parish priest," as he likes to call himself, was already gloating over his anticipated new riches. "I'll be the first clergyman in the history of the world to get a gold platter," exulted ostracized Congressman Adam Clayton Powell last week on the Bahamian isle of North Bimini. That hardly amounted to the "fantastic" disclosure promised for his first press conference since Congress last month decided not to seat him pending an investigation of his free-wheeling way with public funds. But then Powell never before had made a hot-selling record. According to Jubilee Records...