Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character, and the show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts her cards in a gin-rummy game, Broadway gets one of the great comedy moments of the season...
...Gnippe (pronounced guh-nip), stocky, bespectacled cab driver and bowling fan, knocked off cruising in Chicago's Loop to watch the Petersen Bowling Tournament. Said he: "You have to throw 'em slow. You throw a fast ball and it goes bloop right through...
...tenth day, a powerful Swede, Adolph ("The Machine") Carlson, strode in, bowled his eight consecutive games. He always took three small steps, kept his eye on the head pin (he claims watching a spot on the alley is amateur stuff), threw a slow, curving ball. The Swede's score mounted, took the lead. Then Carlson sweated it out until the last ball rumbled down the alleys this week...
...most toothache victims know, cavities are generally caused by acid which forms in the mouth from fermenting food particles. Dentists can partly neutralize or slow down formation of this acid with several safe chemicals. The problem has not been what to give busy patients-but how to give...
Financially the Post coasted along nicely after Bonfils' death, making a million or two a year, largely for his daughter, Helen Somnes, the principal stockholder. Editorially, it died a slow death, keeping nothing of Bonfils' circus journalism except the garish typography. By last November plodding Publisher William C. Shepherd was aware that he and the paper were both burned out. Said he: "I've been a workhorse long enough. Now I want to loaf." Month ago Ep Hoyt was offered the job of blowing new life into the paper...