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...ceremonies and his flunky Uncle Everett is the jockey. He introduces numbers in an indefinable dialect, inevitably ending with, "Thanks just a whole lot, there -- (insert name of star). The music itself is a baffling medley of guitars, fiddles, violins, and whining voices varying in mood from the gay, buoyant "We're Gonna Have a Big Time Tonight" to the lilting sadness of "I Wonder Where Y'are Tonight." Although I have never heard of the singers--the Lane Brothers, Jimmy Dickens, and Tex Logan--apparently they are the aristocracy of the hillbilly peoples...

Author: By The Rabbit, | Title: Git Outta The Hayloft | 2/20/1953 | See Source »

Canada's buoyant economy never looked better. Gold and U.S. dollar reserves last week were at an alltime high of $1,856,000,000, a 271% jump in five years. Record-breaking exports for the first seven months of 1952 have built a credit balance of $197 million. Only one cloud appeared on the business horizon: with a bumper wheat crop estimated at 650 million bushels, only 125 million of which she needs at home, Canada may have trouble disposing of the huge surplus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Wanted: Markets | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

Last week the Advertising Federation of America named Ogilvy its "Young Advertising Man of the Year." This week Ogilvy received a more sincere form of flattery. Manhattan's James McCreery & Co. department store, advertising its "Silf-Skin girdle," depicted a buoyant, smiling young model clad in nothing but a girdle, a halter and an eyepatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: One-Eyed Flattery | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...managing mother of an equally celebrated one) has been wasted. The assumption would be both hasty and unkind. In its own gossipy fashion, Author Wright's autobiography is something of a personal history of the 20th century. It is also a record of one of the most buoyant egos ever hatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oregon Cyclone | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...American in Paris. A buoyant, imaginative musical, full of fine dances and as compelling as its George Gershwin score; with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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