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...five years the softest sell on East Coast TV and radio opened with a gruff, bullying "Hello viewers, I'm Bert Piel and this is my brother Harry." Cartoon characters created by UPA (Mr. Magoo) and given voice by radio's Bob (Elliott) & Ray (Goulding), Boisterous Bert and Harried Harry were pitchmen for Piel's Beer-and invariably the pitch went awry. The lights failed during a taste-test, the man-in-the-street interview turned up a long-winded Piel's fan who would not let Bert get his motivational research questions in edgewise...
...electors-only five for Kennedy, and 26 "unpledged." The predawn dream: perhaps neither candidate would get a majority, and the Deep South could throw the election into the House of Representatives, where each state would have one vote, and the South could swing to the candidate who offered the softest deal on civil rights...
Inevitably, while working there, the ever-observant Nabokov kept a roving eye on Hollywood, a dreamland for which Lolita herself used to yearn. The movie colony may be hard put to know what to make of his conclusion: "It is quietest, sweetest, softest place in the world...
...seventh production of the 300-year-old Bavarian pageant, pilgrims 'crowded into Bavaria in Peugeots, Rolls-Royces, light aircraft, bikes and buses. As the play went on and on and on, lids closed over once reverent eyes: what everyone had come to see-from seats of softest oak-was nothing less than DeMille squared, a seven-hour pseudo-Biblical presentation with a cast of 1,600 painful amateurs. As a Variety headline cried...
...never had a decent job, has always instinctively looked for the softest touch-and in his heart he knows that his own weakness has always been the enemy. His girl has walked out on him, and his best friend is stalking her. But he still has his looks, his tenuous charm. For a time it seems that his love for a nurse will pull him out of his resentment and self-pity; but she recognizes that any wife of Dick's is bound to become a mere crutch. At the end, the author unconvincingly suggests that Dick...