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Word: bowl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Collins and Allen were in a hot competition to turn out the grooviest session. On a Brunswick side of his own, Funnyman Allen told how Goldilocks wandered into the three bears' house, found that "the largest bowl [of soup] was very hot, the next bowl was very cool and the littlest bowl was just right. Naturally she chose the cool bowl." Meanwhile Jazzbo had switched over to Capitol Records, picked up a new scriptwriter (Douglas Jones), and last week released his second pair of "Grimm Fairy Tales for Hip Kids": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Groovy Grimm | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Altered Appearance. Shirley Kremen, using an alias, had rented the lonely four-room hideout in June. A tidy housekeeper, she kept a plentiful supply of canned goods, liquor and beer on hand, and $2,000 in sugar-bowl money. When she was arrested, she had just washed a man's white sweater and spread it neatly on a towel to dry. The men stuck close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Reds in the Sierra | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...operation that gave the C.I.O. some experience for a' once-a-month television show now in preparation and scheduled to start this fall (annual outlay: $300,000). Explained a spokesman: ''Our idea is to say, 'Folks, here's the C.I.O. in a goldfish bowl. Here's what we are and why we're that way; here's what we do and why we do it . . .' We want to convince the public we don't have horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Horns, No Beard | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...impudent accompaniment for Edith Sitwell's eccentric verses; Belshazzar's Feast, a big dramatic choral work; and Orb and Sceptre, a grandiose march commissioned for the coronation. Visiting the U.S. with his Argentine born wife, he will conduct these three works in the Hollywood Bowl this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Late-Blooming Prodigy | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...actors were entranced. Burt Lancaster says reverently that Shirley is "a nugget, a diamond, a pot of gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that a woman like Shirley can come in and by sheer personality bowl the place over." Starlet Terry Moore was breathlessly thrilled: "Shirley is so lovable you want to throw your arms about her like an old shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouper | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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