Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Platter. All too frequently, complain restaurant owners, guests use doggie bags to haul off pilfered ashtrays, pepper mills, and silverware. A waiter in a smart West Coast spot got suspicious when a svelte woman customer actually demanded a doggie bag before taking a single bite of the sizzling steak he had just set before her. When he inquired discreetly if she were feeling unwell, she explained that her girdle was killing her; after a visit to the ladies' room, she returned to polish off the steak, her girdle doggie-bagged under her chair...
...baggery may have occurred at Ernie's, when six fashionable San Franciscans ordered a rack of lamb, then got so thoroughly marinated in martinis that they couldn't eat the meat. Home with the host went the entire roast, with all its trimmings, foil-wrapped on a silver salver...
...which resurrected The Shadow, is also releasing eight other favorites in 52-week packages, including Dangerous Assignment, Famous Jury Trials and The Green Hornet. Detroit's Fred Flowerday, a former sound-effects expert, has acquired the licensing rights to two other oldtimers, The Lone Ranger ("Hi-Ho, Silver") and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ("On, King, on, you huskies . . ."). To Flowerday, putting the Ranger back in the saddle is a particular labor of love: it was he who used to clomp a pair of rubber plumber's friends in a box of gravel at Detroit's Station...
Wasp Power. For the generation of Americans that grew up hi-ho-ing with Silver, the show's theme music, the galloping part of the William Tell Overture, will always be more Ranger than Rossini. And Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee inevitably conjures up visions of Brit Reed, alias the Green Hornet, who when adventure-bound was trailed by a string orchestra playing his tune. Do-Gooder Brit also had the only automobile on radio that ran on wasp power. The Hornet is one of the few oldies to show his age. "Sufferin' snakes...
...there were, stations such as WJRZ in Newark, which devote three full hours every Sunday night to vintage drama, would use even more oldies. As it is, a station that starts broadcasting The Lone Ranger weekly can count on enough 30-min. installments of the Silver saga to last 50 years...