Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Finally, I couldn't restrain myself any longer. I interrupted him and said: "Stop! Wait! You keep talking with such certainty about how you've made short work of the enemy, and now you're telling me there's nothing left to do but polish off the enemy. Have you really assessed the situation correctly? If this were a real war and not just a map exercise, your ships would all be lying on the bottom...
...Dybbuk (1938), a Polish film, Saturday...
Betsy Slade, who is Muffy, is wonderful. She is 19 and has acted only once before, so this is quite the proper occasion for the throwing of bouquets. She does not have the polish of a professional, but she has the quick intelligence, the willingness to get right up against the raw emotion. Slade makes Muffy into the kind of quick, bright, funny girl you want immediately to reassure: to tell her that all the doubts, all the clumsiness will pass in a short time, and she will be really terrific. As for Miss Slade, she already...
...Carol Dines does a fine job with her big number, the one about how if a Harris pat means a Paris hat, she'll just be faithful in her fashion. Probably the lesser parts of the show will get better with practice: after all, it takes time to polish style...
Died. Nathan Handwerker, 83, founder of Nathan's Famous, the Coney Island hot-dog emporium; following a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Polish-born, Handwerker came to the U.S. in 1912 with $28 and much energy. He went to work in Manhattan as a delivery boy, moonlighting weekends at Feltman's, Coney Island birthplace of the hot dog. Encouraged by two singing waiters, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, Handwerker in 1916 took his savings of $300 and set up his own nickel hot-dog stand, slicing Feltman's price in half. The business grew into a multimillion...