Word: stingiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Stingiest Man in Town, new musical version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol...
...Stingiest Man in Town (Dec. 23, 9 p.m., NBC) will be Alcoa Hour's first 90-minute musicolorcast. Basil Rathbone as a syncopated Scrooge, plus Singers Vic Damone, Patrice Munsel, Martyn Green, Robert Weede and other un-Dickensian characters...
SERGEANT JOHN LLOYD ran a motor pool. Helping a war correspondent fix a flat tire, Lloyd talked very American talk, and very happy. "You need any gas? I am the stingiest man alive with gas. Anybody comes in here with more than half a tank don't get any, that's all. They get mad. But when we get orders to move, I have got some saved up, and then I'm not such a bad guy." The tire repaired, Sergeant Lloyd went over to a compressor which would not work, turned a screw, took hold...