Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Taxi Driver (Columbia) and Sounds of My City (Folkways). On them, listeners will find strolling sidewalk instrumentalists, the raucous chatter of pneumatic drills, the wail of sirens-plus a series of rambling speeches, sometimes funny, sometimes pathetic, in the polyglot accents of the New York streets. A plumber, on music: "I mean to me when there's music I'll stop anything; without music, I mean I don't think there'd be life-there would be no world.'' A Times Square pitchman selling a pen: "If my physiognomy is not too conspicuous...
Only 29, Dave King bumped around in his teens as an electrician's and plumber's helper. He played in troop shows for the R.A.F., parlayed a 1954 one-shot on the BBC's Television Music Hall into his own show, became Britain's top-rated comedian. An even more striking one-shot: his decision to ask his agent to bring some TV films to Perry Como, who as producer of Berle's show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October...
Politics was not the only problem that ever bothered Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...
...songs at parties any more," Lehrer said, a little ruefully. "The party turns into a request session and it's no fun for me. It's my business now and I don't like to be asked to work in my spare time. It's like inviting a plumber to dinner and then asking him to fix the john before he leaves...
This year's Hasty Pudding show is a mass of incongruities: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, thinly disguised, hob-nob with a Marxist chambermaid; an Irish plumber appears in the midst of the expatriate rich on the isle of Elba; a sexy French singer takes a copy of Dr. Zhivago into the shower with her. Yet somehow all these strained touches combine to make an evening...