Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cover in the issue of August 13, 1934, no fashion designer had landed there. Early last summer, however, it appeared to Purtell, who keeps his eye on the world of fashion, that the new styles were about to become big news. Obviously, that was a Business story. After a candid examination of the industry, Designer Sophie Gimbel was chosen to illuminate what fashion was up to this time. The cover was scheduled for September, the month that ushers in the new fall styles...
Many people get a guilty thrill out of listening in on a party line, spying on the family next door or reading other folks' postcards. Last week, radio listeners were enjoying the same sort of snooping on a new show called Candid Microphone...
...Candid Mike eavesdrops on people and records their unguarded remarks for broadcasting. In seven weeks on the air, the show has picked up the meows from a beauty parlor, lurked behind two unsuspecting expectant fathers in an obstetrician's office, listened in on a man's attempts to pick up a girl, argued with a bill collector, recorded what happened when a baby was left on an angry woman's doorstep...
...impromptu (and anonymous) conversations on the air, Candid Mike's producer-narrator, Allen Funt, combs Manhattan street corners, hotels, doorsteps, restaurants-any spot where people meet and talk-with his tape recorder. He disguises the mike in a sling, as a hearing aid, hides it under his lapel or sets it on a pawnshop counter covered by a "for sale" sign...
...Candid Mike already looks like a solid hit. Last week 800 enthusiastic listeners wrote in-including some sociologists, scientists, radio technicians-"the most literate fan mail" Funt has ever seen. The dissenting minority, if there was any, could take its cue from the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle, which said: "With this new Machiavellian inspiration, radio crosses the last threshold of privacy. . . . The whole country seems likely to be plagued with hidden microphones...