Word: corne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCoy says he switched to trumpet when his trombone slide kept knocking off ladies' hats during choir practice at the Methodist Church in his home town, Portsmouth, Ohio. In the '30s, Bandleader McCoy was a consistent winner of a jazz-magazine poll labeling him "The King of Corn." The title never bothered...
...Wheel. Among the newer comics, from sickniks to social satirists, Joey stands alone. His wry, deadpan comments raise even the obvious to the realm of high comedy. At the Sands, in the midst of chaos and pure corn-Sinatra beating a bass drum that advertises his L.A. beanery, or Dean Martin drinking Scotch from an ice bucket-Joey can still be funny...
...muster up $5,000,000 for the G.O.P. campaign treasury. All got the same no-frills bill of fare ("the kind of dinner that might have been served in a Kansas home around the turn of the century," as the menu put it): "Eisenhower vegetable soup," sliced beef, corn pudding, "homemade" bread and apple pie. Most tied into the same closed-circuit TV network while Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in Manhattan summoned up the G.O.P.'s biggest names (Vice President Richard Nixon in Chicago, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washington, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
EXPAND CIVIL RIGHTS. "In all our hopes and plans for a better world . . . provincial and racial prejudices must be corn-batted"; in all the U.S.'s history, the right to vote has been a pillar of freedom. Hence, said the President, the U.S.'s "first duty" is to protect the right to vote for all against "encroachment" and "bias...
Against the shrewdly calculated corn of Harry Golden's For 2$ Plain and the old wives' appeal of Dr. D. C. Jarvis' Folk Medicine, there can be set Garrett Mattingly's The Armada, a rare, readable example of historical scholarship. To offset The Stolen Years, which cashes in on headlines about the recent murder of Prohibition Gangster Roger Touhy, and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers, a flight of amateur and secondhand sociology, there is a vivid re-creation of D-day in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest...