Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talladega. Barbara Ellice's daddy sicked the sheriff on the honeymooners, and Barbara Ellice got clamped into custody. The reason: bouncing (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ib.) Baby Doll is only 15. It was all news to the Reverend, a 45-year-old widower with six children, aged 12 to 21. She said she was 20 when they signed the license, he allowed, and "she has always been ahead of her age, according to size." At week's end the couple was reunited; Barbara Ellice had announced that she was pregnant, and her daddy had dropped annulment proceedings...
Some highly successful reincarnations of the barbershop quartet have been producing a lot of lather in the pop-music business. Today's male vocal groups generally sport teen-age beanies, turtleneck sweaters and cloyingly cute names: the Four Aces, Four Freshmen, Hilltoppers, Platters, Pied Pipers, Crew-Cuts. The most refreshing recruits to this fraternity are four sober-suited young men who call themselves-no less cutely-the Hi-Lo's, but make a specialty of kidding the beanies off their brothers...
...university that promised to sweep away all sorts of cherished traditions. The students-all volunteers-heard no formal lectures, got no grades, took no examinations. Instead of studying separate subjects, each isolated from the others, they steeped themselves in a study of Athens' golden age their first year, U.S. industrial civilization the next. The whole idea was to bring all branches of knowledge to bear on one vast subject -to make a college that was a true "community of scholars." But it was all too much for Wisconsin: the college was accused of fostering everything from Bolshevism to free...
While Munch's two obsessions drove him to greatness, he never learned to live with them. Shortly before his death at the age of 80, after he had won both honors and renown, he wearily told his doctor: "The last part of my life has been an effort to stand up. My path has always been along an abyss...
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Hal Wallis; Paramount). In Hollywood westerns, as in popular legends of every age, the men's men are apt to be just big overgrown boys, and in chasing the villain they are actually running away from the woman. But in this highbrow horse opera, the lill-death-do-us-partnership is in some ways a little too close for comfort...