Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI paced up & down the palace garden last week, waiting for a crew of cameramen who never showed up. George had agreed to pose for a colored movie to illustrate the national anthem in Britain's movie houses. On the appointed day all available color cameras were busy and nobody had bothered to tell the King, who eventually stomped back to the palace. TIME'S London Correspondent Alfred Wright last week cabled some other glimpses of George and his family...
Rose, who likes to pose as a lovable little gaffer, runs plugs for some of his rival saloonkeepers' shows, admires other space-grabbers ("One of the great showmen of all time is a kindly, pickle-faced fight promoter named Mike Jacobs . . . rates with Barnum, Ziegfeld and Roxy") or endorses the free entertainment of watching Manhattan's public markets and Broadway's fancydancing billboards. He advises customers not to tip his waiters too much, warns "If you are looking for naked tootsies, the Horseshoe is not your cup of tea" (but slyly suggests that the girls are more...
When Caesar had finished, a photographer asked for a fighting pose. Caesar thrust out a belligerent left, first carefully removing a chunky ring from his chubby little finger...
Information Please (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Elliott and Faye Roosevelt pose as experts with John Kieran and Franklin P. Adams...
...Washington listeners have learned a lot about the people's choices. Many a Senator has told his own rags-to-riches success story. Many have chatted about their work in Congress, tried to make it more understandable. And most address their breakfast mike with a speaker's pose, lean back and stroke their napkins as though smoothing a vest in the halls of Congress...