Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, most of them are already playing, but I'll see if I can get you in a game. Are you sure ... I mean...
Chamber of Artisans. In Britain more than a quarter-million hoops had been sold in one week before the fad reached the editorial attention of the London Times, a sure sign that normalcy is returning. In Poland-so far the only Communist state to succumb to the latest U.S. export-the shortage of hoops has become critical. Complained one youth wjeekly: "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Chamber of Artisans do not embark upon the production of hoops, we will be seriously delayed in hula hoop progress, especially on the international level...
...push a button, I get a response.'' Shari gets her best responses with four hand puppets-named Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and Wing Ding-who trade wisecracks with her, play geography and spelling games, croak weekly through 20-odd songs. Shari has a sure hand with animals (at home, in a Manhattan apartment with second husband Jeremy Tarcher, she keeps a collie, an owl monkey, a parrot, and a mink), and on the show she trots out everything from marmosets to white mice...
...altogether too good for your preschool children." wrote TV Critic John Crosby, "and should have a show aimed at older children, say. me.'' Among older children who have fallen for her are Pat Boone and Jerry Lewis. Sammy Davis Jr. will stay up all night to be sure to catch her show when he is in New York. Other adult male viewers find the going a bit sticky. Says one: "Much depends on the strength of one's stomach, extent of one's hangover, love of young mothers, and ability to endure small children...
Johnny was kept in isolation at Mother Frances Hospital (it happened to be in the psychiatric ward). Each day, doctors examined him and drew blood samples for testing. This week no definite signs of radiation injury had appeared, but it was too soon to be sure. In any case, Johnny's back-room lab, from which illegal stocks of barbiturates and chloral hydrate were confiscated, was closed indefinitely...