Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overstuffed Iceland. Gallery confides that Iceland wasn't nearly so cold as everybody imagined, but at the time he had no inclination to dispel any illusions. Only the deepest snowdrifts were photographed. That softened the supply officers back in Washington, who, at the whisper of the word "Iceland," scrupulously filled requisitions for pianos, bowling alleys and overstuffed sofas...
...afraid, darling, it's only a man's apartment." From this high-voltage start flow 15 minutes of well-turned compliments, sly innuendo, intimate laughs, all floating on oceans of European charm. There are cigarettes and pink champagne, love songs rendered in a throaty whisper (explains Cesana: "I'm the only Italian living who can't sing") and, finally, a heartbreaking good night as Cesana gazes deep and soulfully into his loved one's eyes and breathes: "I haven't any right to do the things I do." Cesana reached his goal...
Shortly after this statement, which dumfounded reporters, Truman's press secretary, long-suffering Joseph Short, broke in to whisper to the President...
Charlotte's Observer, the biggest (circ. 138,183) daily in the Carolinas, is a newspapering nugget of gold that seldom glitters. Its news pages are a typographical mishmash, its editorial voice a whisper. Yet because in its leisurely stride it picks up every crumb of news in its territory, the 82-year-old Observer is one of the biggest profitmakers of its size...
What kind of pictures do U.S. moviegoers really like to see? Writing in the current Harper's, Publicist Arthur L. Mayer, executive vice president of the Council of Motion Picture Organizations (COMPO), frankly discusses some facts of movie life that most pressagents prefer to whisper about behind closed doors. Mayer's main point: most moviegoers prefer bad movies to good ones...