Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Defense backed up Admiral Gallery's denials of the U.S. News story last week: "None of the three services or any other agency in the Department of Defense is conducting experiments . . . with disc-shaped flying objects which covjld be a basis for the reported phenomena . . . There has been no evidence [to attribute them] to the activity of any foreign nation...
...FLYING DISC? WEIRD SKY RACER ZOOMS ACROSS
From Yucatan came news that a large aluminum disc had been seen whizzing by at an altitude of a thousand feet. The most magnificent dispatch came from the northern state of Zacatecas: a farmer had found a large kite-shaped object in the mountains, with two passengers, each just under two feet tall. The Department of National Defense solemnly denied the existence of the midget visitors...
Double Sodas. The original Howdy is a wooden puppet 26 inches tall, who hates guns, dresses like a cowboy, and talks as though his mouth were filled with marbles. His voice and brain are supplied by a fretful, 32-year-old disc jockey named Bob Smith, who conceived Howdy three years ago on a daytime radio show. Transplanted to TV, the puppet flourished so sensationally that, in 1948, Howdy ("The only candidate made completely of wood") claimed more write-in votes for U.S. President-than Henry Wallace. "It's been a hard job," says Smith. "We have to bend...
With four sponsors (Colgate Tooth Powder, Mars Candy, Ovaltine, Pollpar-rot Shoes), some 30 commercial tie-ups (hand puppets, record album, comic books, a rocking chair that plays It's Howdy Doody Time), and a two-hour morning disc jockey show on Manhattan's WNBC, Smith can look forward this year to a $350,000 income. The only change he plans for Howdy Doody is an increasing emphasis on plot: "Slapstick alone will not hold kids. You need some sort of a story line. And, within the confines of this show, we can do almost anything." Anything within...