Word: blotto
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...grabbing stand-by was far from happy with his hush money. He brooded for days, finally took his information to the FCC. Within hours Colgate Palmolive had a copy of his affidavit, the networks were informed, and everyone was in a lather. Everyone was also in agreement-Dotto was blotto. CBS replaced the daytime show with another quiz, Top Dollar. NBC, reading the public reaction more accurately, tried a whole new category: filmed drama...
...orchestrated Hallelujah with the clack of a stock ticker as its motif. The narration of the film, the second in a Project 20 trilogy (first: The Great War; third: The Story of the Thirties), is redolent with the decade's slangy idiom, from "Let's get blotto" to "Nerts." Better yet, not only for its authentic ring but for its unforeseen link to the unsummonable past, the idiom is spoken in the friendly, adenoidal singsong of Comedian Fred Allen, who died last March soon after finishing...
...years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion was passé, and the nation's chief barometer of values was the skyrocketing stockmarket...
...Bastille Day with smashing daylight raids on German air installations at Villacoublay, Amiens and famed Le Bourget airport (where Lindbergh landed) near Paris. TIME Correspondent William Walton covered the Le Bourget raid from the transparent nose of the Flying Fortress Georgia Peach, jammed in with Navigator B. L. Otto ("Blotto") and Bombardier Johnny Ozier. His report follows...
...they are seen by agent Frank Morgan, who spots Fred as a potential star. However, by a slight mistake in the front office, George Murphy is hired to be Eleanor Powell's male lead in her new show. Then comes trouble. Everything from ambitious amateur comediennes to a continually blotto George Murphy interrupts rehearsals--while Fred Astaire takes time out to woo Miss Powell, who, like Barkis, is willing'. The lines in "Broadway Melody" are clever, and several of the dance routines superb. But it is the work of Fred Astaire which makes this a green-light picture...