Word: dixie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gossip, and walking home from school, actors are very likely to betray the fact they are acting, but this presentation of the adult world of Grovers Corners was nearly flawless. Wilder's characters remind you of people you know, despite differences in dress and accent. And the cast, especially Dixi DeWitt (Mrs. Webb) and Edward O'Callahan (Dr. Gibbs) made these characters real, in Wilder's sense of universal types...
...Ernst Heinkel, who had lost all but one of his plants when the war ended, has been turning out small motors, midget cars. He has started hiring back some of his old designing staff, including Siegfried ("Dixi") Gunther, who designed the dread He 110 twin-engined fighter-bomber...
...guard on offense is Bernie Lemonick, Pen. The tackles are Al Wehl (Michigan) and Walt Clmens (Yale); the ends, Don McLean (Columbia) and Vic Pujo (Cornel); center, John Pierik (Cornell). In the back field are Princeton's Dick Kazmater, Penn's Reds Bagnell, Yale's Bob Spears, and Larchmont Dixi Doyne, of Lehigh...