Word: squibs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass for any serious assaults upon Winchell, trotted out the photo and a sour-prefaced retraction. Though "happy to set the record straight," Paar recalled a "complete falsehood" that Winchell had hung on Paar in 1955 and had never corrected. (The squib: "Friends of the Jack Paars ... are worrying".) "Most damaging to any family man," snapped Jack...
...Thus the squib on Fine Arts 13 may read: Full personal introduction to arts and sciences performed by Fowie, Coolidge, and Clive Inc.--Darkness at Noon...
...long-suffering Pa & Ma Delahanty begin to find around the house lists of premeditated behavior, e.g., "Useful Gags for Craziness. I. Clothes, A. Shoes, 1. Unmatched." One of her projects is to wait until she gets on the school bus before putting on her shoes. This gets her a squib in the school paper and passing fame as the author of "Delahanty's Law." But her gags have a way of backfiring; people laugh, but not necessarily in admiration...
...such treatment is evidently insufficient for Princeton's Homer Smith. Not content with a six-paragraph squib about him in its football brochure, the Princeton department of public relations has published a five-page biographical tribute to "a tremendous competitor who is determined to excel in whatever he does...
...hope of a squib for his column, however, O'Hara sat down after getting the lather off his chin and wrote a letter asking what the Senator thought of the new prexy. Harvardman O'Hara expected nothing more than a note saying McCarthy thought Neighbor Pusey was a fine fellow. But to O'Hara's amazement, McCarthy saw Red. He wrote...