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...Bring Your Wife." Hotels have given more than 11,000 rooms to the Republicans. The Blackstone (where Eisenhower will stay) has produced such cocktails as the Eisenhower Eye-Opener (whisky sour), the Taft Teaser (Manhattan) and the Dark Horse (old fashioned). The Palmer House, mindful of the footwork delegates will have to do, is putting a bottle of foot lotion into each room. A major tourist attraction last week was the new eight-room, $40,000 presidential suite at the Congress Hotel where hundreds of visitors, held back by museum-like ropes, gazed at the master parlor...
...that her mother Matilda fell, or was pushed, while arguing about a divorce with her husband, pompous Bank President Augustus Pendleton. Augustus goes off to spend the evening with his gentle lady friend, Widow Amy McKenzie, the woman Matilda wants to name in the divorce suit. The teaser: Will gentle Amy marry pompous Augustus...
...Teaser. At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, curious personnel officers had a talk with WAC Pfc. Gloria Yeager, who had listed her civilian occupation as "stripper," learned that she used to strip tobacco leaves in a cigarette factory...
...Thing had an inexorable calliope-style tune, utterly undistinguished and not even new. Charles Grean of RCA Victor's own popular records staff had merely borrowed the tune of a Rabelaisian old ditty called The Tailor's Boy, and given it new lyrics. The teaser: Grean's storytelling lyrics never do specify what "the thing" is; they just pause while Singer Phil Harris suggestively waits for three resounding booms of the bass drum. Sample...
...First, a Teaser. Another Roosevelt-son Elliott-is deeply involved in the show. His official position is president of the radio-TV "package" firm, Roosevelt & Jones, Inc. But, possibly because Mrs. Roosevelt's radio show and her TV show (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBCTV) are the only ones he has on the air, Impresario Elliott serves in many other capacities. He often rounds up talent for the radio program, his determined salesman's geniality in offhand invitations such as the one he gave Fred Allen: "Come on over and have some fun with mother." He supervises the recording...