Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would soon be absorbed by Hearst's other San Francisco paper, the Examiner, which would then switch from a.m. to p.m. to avoid unprofitable competition with the city's third daily, the morning Chronicle. Last week, with weary indignation, the Examiner took to print to try to shoo off the rumor: "There is absolutely no foundation in any report that the two separately published and managed papers will merge - today, tomorrow, next week, next month, or at any time in the foreseeable future...
...Democratic Party in November." For their money, some 6,000 Democrats saw a two-hour show in which Comic Milt Kamen tastelessly joked about the mating habits of the whale, Gregory Peck quipped that this is the year of the "Republican write-in" and the "Democratic shoo-in," Dancer Mitzi Gaynor peered down her middy blouse and asked: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Tricky Dick Nixon knows...
...mattered in last week's clash between Peru and Argentina. Na tional teams from the two countries were playing in a continent-wide round robin to decide on two teams to represent Latin America in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Argentina, with a 5-0 record, seemed a shoo-in. Peru had two wins and a tie, but with three to play, still had a chance-if it could get by the tough Argentines. Scalpers had a field...
Jazz DIZZY GILLESPIE & THE DOUBLE SIX OF PARIS (Philips) soar from high spot to high spot, from Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be to Ow. Dizzy does blithe acrobatics with his trumpet, then stands aside for the legendary expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clark to shine briefly on piano and drums. In the meanwhile, the Double Six, a sextet of jazz singers, chime in like an instrumental combo, and Mimi Perrin, who has an extraordinarily agile voice, even takes on a couple of solos meant for Charlie Parker's horn...
...good reason. Despite his pallor at the polls, Goldwater has such apparent delegate strength that he seemed a near cinch for the nomination. Then again, Lyndon Johnson looks like even more of a shoo-in for November, so many of the kingmakers decided they might as well sit this one out. "On a ten-to-one shot, what's the use of jumping off the building?" asked one important G.O.P. moneyman...