Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those "new" Crimson jerseys weren't really new. They were lightweight jerseys which will be used as long as the weather stays warm...
From St. Louis Ike whistle-stopped through Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana to a warm welcome from Bob Taft in Ohio. Total Eisenhower talk and travel record from Monday to Monday: 2,590 miles by rail, 1,800 miles by air (in & out of New York for the A.F.L. convention), 123 miles by motorcade, 50 speeches...
...with a testy denial: "Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon." From then on, most of the book is a series of crisp confessions which fascinated at least one early reader. The publishers eagerly snatched at a warm blurb from Harry S. Truman: "I haven't been able to put it down. Undoubtedly the most interesting book I've had in my hands since I have been President of the United States...
...audience had been waiting thirty minutes for this spiel but there was only one sign of restlessness. Under a placard reading "How to STOP Worrying," a tall youth chewed hungrily on both his hands. MacKinnon's talk consisted of "humorous" little stories to warm up the crowd and illustrate the "handling" of people. One of these anecdotes concerned some preposterous lie about food packaging that MacKinnon had told his first grocery store customer; another showed how a father had convinced his on to kill a beloved net turtle by applying one of the rules taught by the course. Audience response...
More successful than the rather floridly filmed drama and melodrama of these three is the comedy of two other episodes. The Cop and the Anthem wisely casts Charles Laughton as a dapper old bum who unsuccessfully tries to get himself locked up in a warm jail for the winter. A burlesqued version of The Ransom of Red Chief presents Fred Allen and Oscar Levant as dour confidence men who, after making the mistake of kidnaping a little monster of a hillbilly boy, finally pay his parents a reward for taking him off their hands. Sample dialogue (strictly not O. Henry...