Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 8,000 fan letters bombarded Kraft; offers came to Sands from twelve movie companies and the major networks. The two songs from the show, Teen-Age Crush, an insipid ballad-with-a-beat that relates in sobbing tones something about young love misunderstood, and Hep Dee Hootie ("Cutie wootie, you're all rootie with me"), sold as fast as they could be scratched onto disks. Crush, says Capitol Records, has sold 1,160,000 copies to date, and in the two weeks since Sands's first LP album, Steady Date, was released, some 225,000 copies have...
...nothing left. Sugar Ray Robinson was a cautious shuffler just two days shy of 37, and he two-stepped away from Gene Fullmer, the brawling, 25-year-old Mormon elder who had taken away his middleweight championship four months ago. At ringside in Chicago, the experts exchanged knowing nods: age had soured Sugar...
...they mean to me?" Mrs. Northway was not happy either. None of her neighbors had called on her, she said, "since the men with the Geiger counters came." Her bit of Houston was still trying to adjust itself to an accident that may become commonplace in the Atomic Age...
...many other financial reporters. When University of Illinois Economist V. Lewis Bassie proclaimed during a recent Cleveland debate that "we're in the beginning of a postwar depression cycle," the emphasis, in stories was on his charge, not the rebuttal. Says Editor Tom Campbell of The Iron Age magazine: "Never has so much ink been spattered around about a 'downturn.' The general theme seems to be that if we are not headed for the roof we must drop to the cellar...
...city bosses who went down before a combination of social services, prosperity, a more hardheaded electorate. He was soundly beaten in his last three mayoralty bids (the most recent in 1955), and last December narrowly survived an operation for a stomach ulcer. His final ambition: attaining the age of 125 in order to be able "to bury all my enemies...