Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Endless Rumble. Soon after President Truman announced his H-bomb decision, Lewis Strauss, his momentous fight won, resigned, to go back into the world of high finance as financial adviser to the Rockefellers. In June 1953, President Eisenhower tabbed Strauss (who had supported his longtime friend Bob Taft for the G.O.P. nomination) as AEC chairman...
...attend paratroop training school this summer before leaving for England, ranked No. 10. But West Point's mighty Tackle Maurice Hilliard barely managed to squeeze into a commission by holding down the "goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy's All-American Tackle Bob Reifsnyder, who graduated in last place as Annapolis' "anchor man." Reifsnyder got no commission because of football injuries and high blood pressure, instead will go where such defects are no handicap-the Los Angeles Rams...
Author Douglas-who originally had the book privately printed and sent to some 400 friends-is a weathered Janizary in the gag profession, whose sultans have been Bob Hope, Red Skelton, George Gobel, Jimmy Durante and, for the past twelve years, Jack Paar. Although Paar has announced that Douglas will be dropped when his contract runs out this month ("You have misused me and your expense account"), Jack has plugged the book, which was also aided by the flack magic of Manhattan Pressagent David Green. Result: last week a lot of people were being tickled by such blunt, Douglas-made...
...corny, it was stagy, and few entertainers could have got away with it. But at the plush Persian Room of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, Lisa was getting away with it well enough to pack the house twice a night. Supplied with special material by Writer-Husband Bob Wells (a co-producer of Dinah Shore's TV show last season), Lisa presents the most elaborate nightclub act since Mae West lost Mickey Hargitay and his bar bells to Jayne Mansfield...
Alias Jesse James. Bob Hope hitting his funniest trail since The Paleface...