Word: stork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parade on Main Street. By early forenoon 2,500 people had crowded into town and Doc MacKinnon was standing in a reviewing stand watching 450 of his "babies" march past, with stork-decorated floats, and a band. After that he was presented with a shiny 1946 Ford, and led before a microphone...
...pure Kiepurese: "The public love oss. They dizagree with the critics. The onjost critics hurts only wahn person-his poblisher and himself!" Wilson showed a flair for punch leads: "John Steinbeck said what the hell, he'd see me." He asked tart old H. L. Mencken at the Stork Club why he lived in Baltimore. Replied Mencken: "I need peace. I live in a remote slum surrounded by lintheads, okies and anthropoids ... far from where the respectable profiteers live." Earl Wilson's current ambition is to write "some thing serious, like John O'Hara...
...Hoagland broadcast the melody nightly to the U.S. Mexico's playboyish presidential candidate, Miguel Aleman, a native Veracruzano, chose La Bamba for his campaign song, had it played by the faithful as often as the Democrats used to play Happy Days Are Here Again. In Manhattan's Stork Club, publicity-smart Dancemaster Arthur Murray last week gave U.S. dancers a first look at his version of the Veracruz dance...
...travels of Fred Balentine and B. Joe Nielson are now history, but include such N. Y. notables as Zanzibar, Stork, Waldorf, Astor Roof, La Martinique, Copacabana, El Morecco, and the Diamond Horseshoe. These muchly-traveled lads must truly be big-city smoothies...
Tallulah Bankhead, an actress who revels in free speech ,but suffers "depression and melancholia" when she is misquoted, came around to admitting that she sometimes prefers misquotations. Unnerved after an unexpected mass interview with a dozen reporters in Manhattan's Stork Club, she confided to Columnist Leonard Lyons: "I suffer less when it's only the Times and the Herald Tribune, because then I know that if I should say 'godammit,' they would report that I had said 'good gracious...