Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil Defense Administration last week was planning to recommend to state governments to take down the familiar road signs that instruct civilians not to use highways in event of enemy attack. Reason: the signs, put up in the duck-and-hide days of the atomic bomb, do not make sense in the run-for-your-life hydrogen-bomb...
...Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Negro singer who warbles spirituals with a howling hep-cat beat. The Felds took over Washington's Griffith Stadium for the ceremony, for which 20,000 people paid from 90¢ to $2.50. The big spectacle included $5,000 worth of fireworks displays of a duck laying eggs, a naval battle, and of Sister Rosetta herself. The Superfelds, whose bookings now range from Charleston, S.C. to Pittsburgh, also have sponsored more conventional types of entertainment, e.g., Guy Lombardo, Billy Eckstine, George Shearing, and such road-show stage favorites as Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court...
...Long Wait (Parklane; United Artists). Mickey Spillane is not a writer to duck the vital issues. The first movie made from one of his mysteries, I, The Jury (TIME, Aug. 7), was a warning to psychoanalysts to stay out of the numbers racket. The second is apparently an ad for amnesia...
After an acorn fell on Chicken-licken's head, she convinced Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander and Turkey-lurkey that the sky was falling. They all got so excited that Fox-lox ate them...
...When to Duck. Radio Actor Donn Reed, who originated the show, spends his nights riding a Culver City, Calif, prowl car to make on-the-spot recordings of police investigations, arrests and interrogations. The voices used are those of the people actually involved. In getting his material, Reed has been slugged, beaten with handcuffs, shot at. Says he: "It's important to know just when to duck...