Word: plushiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four-Star Ovation. Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill...
That could be fixed. Angel Farrell paid a lump-sum $1,300,000 for the Warner Theater ("a cash deal is best") and closed Hold It! until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest. When contractual snarls developed over transplanting Hold It!, Farrell switched from musicomedy to revue, signed up Comics Bert Wheeler and Paul and Grace Hartman, tossed in another $250,000 and put on All for Love. It was a critical flop...
This week he had changed his mind. Mammy-Singer Jolson, 61, had joined the regulars in one of radio's plushiest assignments: star of NBC's Kraft Music Hall (Thurs. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Why? Jolson himself was ready with a long-winded explanation. He had tried to persuade the sponsor to let him supply the punch the Music Hall has lacked since Crosby left the show last year. He had been turned down cold. Al's version of it sounded like the lyric of an oldtime Jolson song...
...best up-&-coming girl with a style all her own is doe-voiced Evelyn Knight, who has a pull in Manhattan's plushiest nightclubs second only to Hildegarde. She made a hit by singing with soft assurance such old-fashioned tunes as Grandfather's Clock and a streamlined version of Buffalo Gals called Dance with a Dolly ("with a hole in her stocking"). Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul...
...examiners recommended for Pan Am the plushiest passenger runs from the mainland to Honolulu. And in the South Pacific Pan Am will have the air lanes to itself until the anxious British, now flying a military route from San Diego to Australia, put in a commercial service...