Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tossed about the Channel like flotsam, Lord Jim's crew found little to occupy themselves but an occasional tune on the guitar by Bertie de Castelbajac and-of course-an occasional bottle of wine...
Married. Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille LeSeuer), 47, durable (29 years) cinemactress (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Guitar); and Alfred N. (for Nu) Steele, 54, president of the Pepsi-Cola Company; she for the fourth time (her first and second: Cinemactors Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone), he for the third; in Las Vegas...
...Your Struggles Are Over." Stores in Los Angeles and Dallas have set up Crockett clubs, marked off special Davy Crockett sections where youngsters can find everything from a Davy Crockett peace pipe (98?) to a complete Davy Crockett outfit with rifle, powder horn, cap, etc. ($7.98); a Davy Crockett guitar costs $4.98 extra. Denver's May Co. advertises a Davy Crockett bath towel, with this pitch to mothers: "Your bathtime struggles are over . . . They'll run to use Davy Crockett towels." Davy Crock-etteer Fess Parker, who stars in Disney's TV series, has already endorsed...
...safety pins, and flanked by two more Picasso nephews, both doctors. "Mama suffers from rheumatism and can't sleep. None of us goes to bed before 6." the family explained, then plunged into the evening's entertainment. Doctor Pablin began plucking out a lively flamenco on his guitar. Lolita sat down at the piano. In no time Juanin began a heel-stomping dance; Doctor Jaime handed around glasses of sweet Malaga wine while keeping time with a multicolored duster (a present from Uncle Pablo); Doña Lola swayed happily to the rhythm, urging the dancers on with...
...prospector was more given to the feverish, carousing miner's life than Agustín Martínez. For months he would pan the sandy river bottoms; finding a few diamonds, he would load his canoe with rum and float downriver, happily strumming the cuatro, his four-stringed guitar. Then some missionaries showed Agustín the error of his ways. "I put the cuatro and the rum in a sack and threw them into the Caroni River," he reported...