Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating the worker (see glossary). Whether it's a potato peeler or a card trick-he has to make it look easy...
...down having dinner in a Chinese restaurant. By the time Hathway hustled back to the office, other staffers who had heard the news were also hurrying in and the list of wreck casualties was up to 50. Though the radio has just about killed off the newspaper trick of putting out extras as circulation boosters, Newsday's department heads decided to put one out "as a public service." Hathway "got the staff out of the bars and grills, the restaurants and the movies." By 11 p.m. the mechanical staff was in and 32 editorial men were working...
Milland turns up as a vaudeville trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...
...pregnant, it does no good simply to tell them that they are not, said Dr. Fried and his colleagues. A woman with pseudocyesis will go shopping for another doctor to confirm her pregnancy, or her symptoms will soon recur. A careful explanation with a little psychiatric treatment does the trick, said the doctors. Four of their patients, infertile for two to seven years, later became really pregnant...
...Honolulu, and could have behaved as the U.P. did -except for the ethics of it." Says Carleton Kent, president of the White House Correspondents' Association: "Merriman Smith's . . . filing the communique twice, thus holding up the stories of the special correspondents' pool . . . was a dirty little trick...