Word: plugger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Himber took one look at her plain little face and groaned. But she got the job, sang on Himber's Studebaker Champions program for 13 weeks. Then a song plugger told her about a big audition at NBC. Like the songstress in Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, she was cautioned to sing "loud and fast. . . and on the beat." About 150 other girls were trying out, too ("An acre of mink and silver fox, honey, and me in a little old suit"). But Lucky Strike's late George Washington Hill liked Fredda's hep style...
HENRY GOETHALS, who seldom handles the ball, except in the T formation, is an iron man who played 60-minute roles against Rutgers and Holy Cross. As a backer-up, he has been an efficient hole-plugger all season...
This year Unitarian Park, bald-pated at 73, retires at last from the active ministry. He will spend more time with his eight grandchildren and further develop his amateur virtuosity at printing ("I am an old-fashioned type plugger"), carpentry ("I stick to plane surfaces, straight lines, and right angles") and photography. But he and his wife plan to remain in Boston. "Whenever the congregation wants me," said he last week, "they'll just have to whistle...
Married. Harry Sayles Conover, 34, crown prince of U.S. model peddlers, plugger of "the well-scrubbed American girl"; and Candy Jones (real name: Jessie Wilcox), 22, his well-scrubbed No. 1 blonde cover girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in Hamilton...
...Russia's Andrei Gromyko: "Deadpan . . . plugger...