Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman meant his fireside chat to be a success. A man well aware of his limitations, he nevertheless hoped to transcend them. He had reached a turning point in his presidential career; he wanted to round the corner with banners flying...
Time and again we have seen highly successful comedies based solely on the old stage formula of combining amusing complications and witty wisecracks in a mad merry-go-round of people dashing on and off the scene. For some reason it doesn't work out so well on the screen...
Those who detest escorted tours could pick regular commercial air service: Rio, now 31 hours from Miami, $765 round trip; Chile, 29½ hours, $828 round trip; Mexico City, 18 hours from New York and 7½ hours from Dallas, $223.96 and $91.66 for the round trip. (The introduction of four-engined equipment this spring will cut flying time, reduce fares...
When Allen went to war in July 1942, Partner Drew Pearson had given his pal a touching sen-off. "I shall miss Bob," wrote Drew. "But . . . he'll be back handing out brass rings, punching the tickets for rides on the old Merry-Go-Round." Every so often, during the war, Drew would write a letter to Allen-for all the 18,000,000 readers to see. What Pearson did not tell the readers is that when Allen went to war, Pearson offered him what Allen considered so small a share of their column's income that Allen...
...paid well. Allen kept a part-time job with J. David Stern's New Dealing Philadelphia Record at $150 a week, but made $50,000 a year from the Merry-Go-Round. He insists that he had to hand big chunks of it to lawyers, since Merry-Go-Round produced almost as many libel suits as scoops...