Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoker also disclosed the presence in our midst of another talented double-talker in the person of Sidney Resnik, who served beautifully as a stooge for the fog-horn-voiced Benjamin. The dialogue between A.A. (Rita) Addington and O.K. (Olivia) Bovard brought down the house and Lt. (jg) T.W. (Bide Crab) Bradley with it. That last remark involving the distribution of naval responsibility and its various ramifications was unanimously elected as the climax crack of the evening...
...landlord (silkily played by Cinemactor Henry Daniell) is the life of the piece, and Playwright Thompson handles him with a certain sophistication. But by the same token, he mishandles him. Putting Mayfair ahead of murder, he turns the landlord into a sort of Noel-Cowardish fancy talker, and the fancy talk sinks the play. It becomes tiresome in itself, lowers the tension, and worst of all, gives the audience time to spot what is coming next...
...Portland, Ore. reporter was informed by his wife that the President had been in Africa: she had heard it from her mother, who had heard it from her second husband, who had heard it at his Rotary luncheon. One slip was made inadvertently over the Associated Press wirephoto talker system. A Midwest member got on the wire, blatted the news to all wirephoto points by asking the New York office: "What about pictures on Roosevelt at Casablanca...
...Talker. In Marianna, Fla., Mamie Ruth Odum, en route by bus to marry an Air Corps lieutenant in Tampa, met a private who told her: "Give me until tomorrow noon and I'll talk you into marrying me instead...
Said he pointedly in London: "The U.S. can now supply men and materials on a large scale to a European battlefront." The other was honest General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and no showy talker. At West Point's graduation exercises he departed from pleasantries and the usual sermon on the honor of the Cadet Corps to hammer a few global-war tacks. Said he: "Today we find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, China and India. They have wintered in Greenland and Iceland...