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Word: clown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Currently the darling of the sportswriters, Mays has been widely depicted in print as a high-spirited chatterbox, a dugout wit and locker room clown. On the field he often does crackle like an old Ford magneto, kids in a boy-and-father way with Manager Durocher. But off the field Mays curbs his tongue and his curiosity. "When Willie wants to know something," says Guardian Forbes, with considered understatement, "he'll ask a simple question. All he wants is a simple answer. Then he don't see any reason for chewing it up any further. Willie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Bravo pour le Clown (Edith Piaf; Angel LP). Eight over-orchestrated songs of the sadder aspects of life and love, one of them (the title song) a rowdier than usual pagliaccio-type item that fits Piaf as closely as a putty nose. Perhaps more timely in France, where La Piaf is now touring with a circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Married. Groucho Marx, 58, waspish clown of cinema (A Night at the Opera) and television (You Bet Your Life); and Eden Hartford, 24, Beverly Hills model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Sun Valley, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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