Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally conceded that the TV industry had done a good, workmanlike job. But some critics worried about hippodrome tendencies, e.g., when WPIX Commentator Harry Brundidge, at the end of Frank Costello's testimony, rushed to the witness stand and begged the leather-faced Costello to smile for the TV audience, the TV cameras left the Senate committee high & dry until Costello graciously obliged. That the committee itself felt some uneasiness was indicated this week when Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley suggested that the Senate Rules Committee make a thorough study of the question of televising congressional proceedings...
...singing rage, Miss Patti Page"), Washington's big Capitol Theater rocked with wolf cries, whistles and cheers. In the wings, pretty, 23-year-old Patti, radiant in an orchid-colored strapless gown, sidetracked her gum back in her jaw, took a deep breath, switched on a neon smile and glided onstage...
...usual, that was all it took to get Patti's audience in her lap. Part of the act: "I always try to smile at a woman in the audience...
...alterations made at Walt Disney's drawing board. He does not reach quite high enough (5 ft. 5% in.); he weighs too much (215 Ibs.); he balloons out too far at the middle (44-in. waist). A bashful mustache perches below his nose. His mouth, always ready to smile, surrounds a small boy's teeth, with the necessary aperture in the center for whistling and spitting. Elfin ears peek selfconsciously around his rosy Pooh cheeks. He dresses in department-store suits, noisy ties and unshined shoes...
...little man from Toledo breasts the big winds blandly, a smile on his face and an endless stream of wisecracks, wise sayings and smart answers on his lips. He arrived in Washington with a typical quip...