Word: hoofers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrity-sprinkled crowd of 1,500, some in costumes of the '40s, applauded a constellation of stars who were the '40s: Ruby Keeler, Myrna Lay, Jane Withers, Patsy Kelly, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert, Arlene Francis, Lena Home. "Didn't they all look great?" asked ex-Hoofer Dan Dailey. "Mind you, there was a lot of mileage up there...
...child of the streets, raised in Manhattan's Harlem, Winchell quit school when he was 13 to tour the vaudeville circuit with Gus Edwards' revue. Several years later, as a touring hoofer, he began composing a chatty backstage newsletter featuring items about whose mother was recovering from the grippe and such quips as "You tell 'em, Ouija, I'm bored...
...said that good Americans went to Paris when they died. Nowadays they go to No, No, Nanette. It's a nice place to expire-with nostalgia, laughter and the ultimate in escapist foofaraw. One can only hope that they gild Ruby Keeler's shoes for the Hoofer's Hall of Fame and vote Patsy Kelly the Most Amusingly Insolent Maid of the Century. To Helen Gallagher, and Bobby Van, let's just say, "Thou swell...
CALIFORNIA. Gray-haired and raspy-voiced from a successful operation for throat cancer, oldtime Hoofer George Murphy, 68, is trying to dance out of the way of a strong challenge to his bid for a second Senate term by a Democrat named Tunney. If the Tunney were Gene, a contemporary, Murphy could worry less. But it is John. 36-year-old son of the former heavyweight champion, a three-term Congressman who looks, talks and acts like a somehow unaccounted-for Kennedy brother...