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...people seem to agree. In the past half a dozen years, switching hats like a bargain-basement shopper, he created a jazzy ballet for the Paris Opera, directed, produced or starred in six movies. On TV, he waltzed with Julie Andrews ("He made me feel as if I really could dance"), mugged with Danny Kaye, hosted the Hollywood Palace, narrated documentaries on silent movies and baseball, and starred in four one-hour specials and his own series, Going My Way. This year he was awarded an Emmy for the best children's program, Jack and the Beanstalk, in which...
...five years he was with Young & Rubicam, selecting shows to suit the sponsors. In 1955 he moved to Thompson, which, in spite of its size, had been slow getting into the enormous new field of TV. Seymour reorganized the radio-TV department, was the agency's show shopper. He did so well that he soon had a hand in all of the agency's activities. Thus, after Stanley Resor died and Strouse was left alone to run the shop, Seymour was a natural choice for president...
Both the book and the show are loaded with tips. She recommends carbon steel knives rather than stainless because they are easier to keep sharp, heavy cast-iron or copper pots and pans because they spread heat evenly and won't tip over. The food shopper can be sure that fish is fresh, she advises, if the eyes are clear, the gills bright red and the flesh firm. The keys to successful sauteing are, first, patting dry the food, then hot fat and an uncrowded pan. A souffle has a much better chance of rising...
...form of higher prices for food. And why should I paste stamps for an item at list price in the stamp catalogues when it is available at two-thirds of the list price at a discount or department store? Why cannot the stores give the shopper the choice of either stamps or a discount on her purchases? Or would this be proving the point too emphatically for comfort...
...face knotted with perplexity, "Lady, it's not even Halloween yet." It wasn't, either. Sanger-Harris, together with many other U.S. depart ment stores, installed its early-bird Christmas Shop in October this year, replete with cards, creches, plastic Christmas trees, tinsel and wrappings. The U.S. shopper is not imagining things. Christmas does come a little earlier each year...