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...learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help him hawk pamphlets on sex. Sales to date, at $1 each...
...time out for a sponsor's message about mayonnaise, he drawls glibly without script for 15 minutes. Sometimes he announces that there is no news worth mentioning, advises people not to buy a paper that day. From politics, war, or a headlined disaster he may slip into a spiel on Southern cooking: "Where you go'n' to find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin' your vegetables." Even some Richmonders who profess to be fed up with his sagelike utterances and sweet...
...they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...
...Lewis agreed with me and said he would be in my office at 11. Then I called Ezra Van Horn [the operators' representative] and gave him the same spiel. He said he would see me at 11. When they arrived I took them into my office and said, 'Gentlemen, this thing has got to be settled. I understand that the whole dispute hangs on getting a referee-a third trustee for the pension fund...
Through the door of Locker Room No. 30 at Madison Square Garden, a head poked: "Three minutes to go, Mr. Hickey." The sawed-off evangelist in the brown pin stripe nodded and continued his spiel. "The ball belongs to the champion," he said. "Possession! Control! Don't go for the bucket. Wait until the bucket comes...