Word: throb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throb could be felt along New Orleans' 11½ miles of riverfront wharves. There, one night last week, 60 ships lay in a driving rain while tooting switch engines slammed boxcars, oilcars and flatcars along the quayside...
Boom, Boom. It was the throb of a favorite-son boom for Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in 1948 will become President Eisenhower of Columbia University. Behind the drums were Roy Roberts' potent Kansas City Star and a would-be Eisenhower campaign manager, Alf Landon, who had pointedly stayed away from Dewey doings in Kansas City. A fortnight ago Ike had again denied his political ambitions, but announced: "I haven't the effrontery to say I wouldn't be President." No one knew better than Dewey, beaten by Willkie in 1940, how much spontaneous combustion...
...only six months on the air, "Heart Throb" Barker's Merry-Go-Round had built an audience of 20 million (fully as large as that of Tommy Handley, long Britain's No. 1 radio funnyman). There were two good reasons for Heart Throb's success: 1) he had won a wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called...
...leading spirit of Sinking-in-the-Ooze is the Heart Throb himself, a small-voiced, nervous bloke with a laugh as scratchy and uncertain as a wrong key at a lock. Barker's scenes with his designing secretary (played by his wife, Pearl) often carry off the show. "There," says Pearl, "two eyes looking at you so tenderly, two soft arms offering you something you can't possibly resist." Barker: "Camembert!" Pearl: "No, Love!" Barker (with a quivery laugh): "Steady, Barker...
Kenton is a gladhander who seeks out local disc jockeys when he hits a new town, is up early in the morning to be accommodating to autograph seekers. Said he: "We can't lay any more eggs. Now we play a pulsating melodic throb. People's ears today are in tune to great harmonic things. Our music has to be built into institutional proportions. The band has to become a household word...