Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Douglas-who originally had the book privately printed and sent to some 400 friends-is a weathered Janizary in the gag profession, whose sultans have been Bob Hope, Red Skelton, George Gobel, Jimmy Durante and, for the past twelve years, Jack Paar. Although Paar has announced that Douglas will be dropped when his contract runs out this month ("You have misused me and your expense account"), Jack has plugged the book, which was also aided by the flack magic of Manhattan Pressagent David Green. Result: last week a lot of people were being tickled by such blunt, Douglas-made...
...real and serious issue was the conduct of Jackie Bright, the M.C. who rose from the floor of obscure nightclubs to the $25,000-a-year post of administrative secretary of null a 13,000-member union made up of vaudevillians, circus performers and miscellaneous nightclub entertainers (ranging from Red Skelton at $40,000 per week to a chorus boy at $75). Sporting pearl tie pin, jeweled cuff links and charcoal-grey suit, Bright quickly earned a reporter's nickname, "Blackie." Against him stood Blondie herself-Actress Penny Singleton, fortyish, who was up for re-election as A.G.V.A. president...
Unhappily, this tragedy was not the only snafu involving Able. Two explanations had been officially offered for the failure of the attempt to test Able's reactions in flight by having her press a button when a red light flashed. First explanation was that the reaction instrument failed to work. Then it was explained that last-minute tests of the button circuit showed that it was setting up interference in other circuits and it had therefore been turned off. Last week word leaked out that neither explanation was correct. Truth was that Able was a substitute off the space...
...middle height with a pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman's arrival and went to him at his inn to beg him to stay. Calvin declined. Farel roared at him: "You are simply following your own wishes...
...From the dutiful daughter she became the no-quarter feminist. From the total order of Catholicism, she moved to the universe of total absurdity embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish instilled by Mama de Beauvoir has given Simone's intellectual life unquestionable integrity, but it also makes every clash between the ideal and the actual...