Word: yeastiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody can tell for sure what it is or why, but the yeastiest dish on TV this season is served up about midnight every Tuesday when the Popocatepetl of party-givers, Elsa Maxwell, rises onstage at NBC's Tonight to barter inanities with cheeky, clef-chinned Jack Paar. To Elsa, Host Paar is "My King of Jest," and Jack calls Elsa "Queen of the Wild Frontier." "Elsa's not afraid to say what's on my mind," explains Paar as, with wide-eyed innocence, he eggs her on to gossip haphazardly about Perry Como ("He puts...
...National Enquirer (circ. 119,055), a Sunday tabloid ("The World's Liveliest Paper") that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller also grinds out five other Enquirer features: a tearjerker called "Millerdramas," a trade-talky TV column bylined John Jay, "Inside Politics" by James Miljae, "Hollywood Keyhole" by Gene Carter...
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