Word: cue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Templeton learns his scripts by having them read to him 20 times, follows them during broadcasts by touch-cues, called "zicks," given by his manager, Stanley North. North puts his right hand on Templeton's left shoulder, squeezes when he is to speak or play, whispers the first few words of each speech. To speed his playing North presses Alec's left shoulder with his forefinger; to slow him down, the forefinger is drawn across his back. After a particularly fine job, North pats Alec's left coat pocket. Thus far, Alec has never missed a cue...
...lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more recently the U. S. aircraft industry (see p. 63) and the Government. Last week it provided a good cue to the new state of U. S. business-a state which two months ago would have sounded like a fairy tale...
...Cue has so far paid no dividends, has cost President Keep & friends "something less" than $400,000. Revenue has all gone into expansion and promotion; plump, curly Dave Keep hopes eventually to have something that will rival the New Yorker. "If we need more money, we'll put it in," says...
...magazine was taken up by a bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold Van Beuren, began promoting Cue all over the Metropolitan area. Now a 58-page "Weekly Magazine of New York Life," jamful of information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition. The national edition...
...Most of Cue's editors have a little money in the magazine, a little more money of their own, work for salaries averaging around $75 a week. They pride themselves on being sportsmen, compete madly at tennis, squash, billiards, chess. President Keep's dream: a gymnasium for Cue, where every male of his 80 employes would be compelled to take at least one hour's exercise every day. One of Cue's female employes describes the organization as "a casual kind of place, so friendly and full of gentlemen...