Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means of support gathered in A.D. 1210 in the little Italian hill town of Assisi and started what Danish Roman Catholic Historian Johannes Jorgensen called "the most powerful attempt since Christ to make the world truly Christian." Their leader was a gentle little man who began life as a gay young gallant with a yen for glory-until, riding off to war at 22, he heard a voice ask, "Why do you desert the Lord?" Not long after, Francis of Assisi turned to prayer and fasting. Haled into an episcopal court for selling some of his merchant father...
...corn is off an aged cob ("Haven't had so much fun since the old cow had twins"), Dean is, in the words of an associate, "photogenic, amiable, happy-go-lucky and a nipple feeder-that is, he knows little outside his music." Says his manager, Connie B. Gay, who is the chief impresario of country-music shows: "Garroway plays to the box office, Jimmy to the grandstand...
Free as a Breeze. City Slicker Gay, whose 200-man rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze...
...When Gay heard that CBS was thinking of a morning hillbilly show, he cut a pilot film of Dean that sold CBS bigwigs. Within two weeks Jimmy Dean had become the first performer in three years to clout NBC in the morning rating war. His fans wrote up to 25,000 letters a week. (Sample: "It's about time the damyankees gave a good country boy a chance...
Bull by the Tail. This year Jimmy will make $100,000-a measure of the boom that country music is enjoying throughout much of the U.S. "Country music's like an eating cancer," says Gay. "Once you start with it, you've got a bull by the tail. That music takes over...