Word: rubberneck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the grounds, toppling the tall cypresses and pepperwoods. Tons of earth will be dumped into the swimming pool in which wobbly guests once cooled their hangovers. Soon, sightseeing buses will drive along the curve of Sunset Boulevard between Schwab's Drugstore and the gabled Marmont Chateau, with rubberneck guides remembering nasally: "Alla Nazimova lived here once. Paramount built her a mansion. The swimming pool was in the shape of the Black Sea to remind her of Yalta, where she was born...
...highly newsworthy visitor, Mikoyan deserved extensive coverage. But most papers, in giving him this due, leaned over backward to preserve the "objectivity" in which the U.S. press takes inordinate pride. Most stories ran as straightforward accounts of the rubberneck tour, without qualifications, without reservations, without showing cautious awareness of the other Mikoyan, the calculating Russian emissary, who followed Tourist Mikoyan everywhere he went. Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times, who spent six years in Moscow watching the Soviet's ways, filed Baedeker-like stories in which both the real Mikoyan and Salisbury's Moscow wisdom were invisible...
...runty gambler named Mickey Cohen. To the movie folk, gum-chomping Mick typified a real-life heavy out of their own films; for the Mick to invite a star to his table in a swank joint seemed as thrilling for the guest as it would be if a rubberneck tourist were asked to drink with Lana Turner. The Mick and his crowd just loved...
...some of his See It Now interviews show a lack of the flexibility to follow up an opening instead of going on to a prearranged question). Person to Person (sponsors: American Oil Co. and Hamm Brewing Co. alternating with LIFE) makes its pitch mainly to viewers who want to rubberneck in celebrities' homes. It deliberately casts Murrow, sitting in a Manhattan studio, as a discreet electronic guest whose job is to make polite chitchat, not ask probing questions. Murrow's own discomfort is sometimes visible, but he sold Person to Person as a package to CBS this year...
...taxes, had been given to the State of California. A condition of the gift, which includes a Moorish castle: it will be dedicated as a "historical monument," and a memorial to Hearst and his mother Phoebe. California was no shortsighted beneficiary. Its State Park department is even now plotting rubberneck tours at $1 a head...