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Word: captain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to you and CBS for presenting Captain Kangaroo [Aug. 3]. It is the only "children's" show my children will watch. The local shows for wee ones present old cartoons and adult commercials, and my children walk away. I would appreciate seeing Mr. Keeshan sans Captain costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Enrico Caruso and the phonograph drove the parlor tenor to the bathtub. Now Columbia Records' Mitch Miller is trying to lure him out from behind his shower curtain. Miller, a now inaudible oboist who is nonplaying captain of Columbia's pop musicians, worked up a gimmick just corny enough to click: a chorus of 28 men singing simple, slow arrangements of the old, golden songs, and an album-jacket invitation to listeners to join in the schmalz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN-PAN ALLEY: The Sing-Alongs | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Divorced. Richard McCutchen, 32, personable onetime Marine Corps captain, now a Volkswagen district service manager, famed for his $64,000 winnings on cooking knowledge (he was the first top winner) from TV's now defunct The $64,000 Question; by Betsy Griffen McCutchen, 32; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Delaware, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...husky six-footer, he was inducted, but had been in uniform only a week when he landed in Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, Ky. Captain Robert L. Rainey and Lieut. Colonel David L. Deutsch found nothing wrong with him except dermographia-his skin was so sensitive that they could write on it with their fingers (TIME, Jan. 19). The doctors got him to play basketball. Within 15 minutes the patient had hives and a swollen left eye. He was released from the Army. But allergy to effort is so uncommon that goldbrickers trying to feign it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hives of Effort | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Wellesley, Mass., Theater on the Green: Eric Portman doubles as Mr. Darling and Captain Hook, while Rosemary Harris as Peter has trouble with both in Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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