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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR JOE McCARTHY | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR JOE McCARTHY | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...picture's early promise of gentle parody is paid off first in juvenile whimsy and folksiness, finally in a mild flurry of standard ridin' & fightin'. Neither Technicolor nor all the warmth of McCrea's amiable personality can conceal the fact that the film is short on the basic ingredient of any western: action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Changing Frontier | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...second big show (Jersey Joe Walcott v. Ezzard Charles). Tongue-in-cheek sport-writers have been touting it as the "slightly" heavyweight championship. Said Boxing Director Louis, squelching a rumor that he might give up promoting and make a ring comeback: "Promoting don't pay as well as fightin', but it lasts longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fiasco in Detroit | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie," who was ill with laryngitis. The patrons had come expecting to hear Dorothy's leering Feudin' and Fightin', and got nothing but Phil Regan's clean Irish ballads. But they too kept calling for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Old Shillelagh | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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