Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment of a new sheriff, signed papers and discussed an upcoming meeting of the Merit System Council (he is trying to give more than 5,000 state employees civil-service protection). Halfway home, he asked the driver to stop at a roadside lunch stand. Roy (as the proprietor addressed him) gulped his coffee fast, wandered out and down the street. His driver, used to his habits, picked the governor up three blocks away; he was deep in conversation with two oldsters sitting in front of a hardware store. "I need the exercise," said Collins, "and it gives me a chance...
...Broadway flat on Manhattan's West Side, and set to work. They considered and discarded dozens of formats. For a while. Phil was going to play a busybody brother-in-law; then they switched to making him the manager of a minor-league baseball team; then the proprietor of a combined gymnasium and rehearsal hall. Silvers says: "When Nat first thought of this Army thing, I didn't like it. But it had one major quality - it wasn't show business. I'm fed up with comedies about show business." So Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko...
...Broadway book. As the show begins, such assorted knouts, beer-needlers and pete-lousers as Nicely Nicely, Benny Southstreet, Harry the Horse and Angie the Ox are in their customary condition of p.m. panic. "The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll...
...girl with no home, Miss Tyler is taken under the care of Helen Traubel (Fauna), the kindly proprietor and procurer for the Bear Flag Cafe, which serves up any number of interesting dishes. Miss Traubel handles her role as well as her charges, and her full voice only occasionally fails to cross the footlights. She puts a hefty bounce into her lines and succeeds in her match-making, legal and otherwise...
Meanwhile, Jim Cronin, proprietor of Jim's Place, reported that he cannot get the Providence channel on the set above his bar, but can get "a picture with no voice" from Manchester...