Word: tightwads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere nothing compared to the buddy's own troubles. He, it seems, married a snaggle-toothed bag to secure his position in her father's firm, but she left him, and, even worse, the old tightwad gave him only one raise in six years. Eventually their respective spouses return, and after a helpful exchange of advice, the couples retire to patch up their differences in classic fashion. "Honey," pleads the patient buddy just before the final curtain, "please don't put that Vicks Vapo Rub on your chest...
...Jack Benny Show (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Now that the old professional tightwad has paid the price, M-G-M has finally given him permission to put on his parody of that grisly thriller, Gaslight. With Barbara Stanwyck, Benny and Bob Crosby...
United Press service also demands a philosophical disposition, for its low pay scale and tightwad expense accounts are legendary. During a national political convention in Chicago, longtime Bureaus Supervisor L. B. ("Save a Nickel") Mickel cut down on expense accounts so sharply that General News Manager Earl Johnson told his men to retaliate by signing all their hotel meal checks with Mickel's name; Mickel was barely able to leave town. A sardonic example of U.P. tightfistedness was an exchange one day between Atlanta, the U.P.'s southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer...
...Tightwad. In Sacramento, cops who questioned Donald Garrett for refusing to pay for the drink he had ordered at a tavern, found $2,500 in his pocket, listened to his explanation: "I'm not in the habit of spending much money on myself...
...papers that Eleanor is accusing me of being a tightwad. She is absolutely right. Compared to me, Scrooge was a philanthropist. For instance, throughout our marriage we lived in a five-story town house on Beekman Place, with only one lousy elevator. The furniture was secondhand stuff-designed by Chippendale and other 18th century English carpenters. The old Crown Derby plates she ate off had occasional cracks, and the antique Paul Storr silver was once slobbered in by King George III. The pictures on the walls were horrors-the work of hacks like Rembrandt, Hals, Velasquez and Renoir...