Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weediest Case. In San Fernando, Calif., Gary L. Seybert explained to police investigating the marijuana growing in his garden: "A guy gave me the seeds and told me they would attract all the rabbits I can shoot...
...first time in years, Campbell has a serious U.S. challenger: Bandleader Guy Lombardo, who is building a new aluminum jet-propelled hydroplane that he will try out this fall. Lombardo professed to be undisturbed by Campbell's latest feat. "We figured when we planned our boat," he said, "that we would have to design it to go 300 m.p.h. I'm confident we'll beat Campbell's record...
Last week it was George Burns, making his nightclub debut as a single (after three decades of radio, television and movies with his wife Gracie Allen), who supplied the big-name show. Later it will be Dorothy Collins, Rosemary Clooney, Guy Lombardo, Gisele MacKenzie in a line-up that costs Harrah more than $2,000,000 a year. Harrah's operation must relieve the customers of $60,000 a day-more than $21 million a year-merely to break even. High as those figures sound. Bill Harrah, the largest single private employer in Nevada, beats them with ease...
...fulltime job singing at Vancouver's Mandarin Gardens. "It was a real trap," she remembers. "If you shut the front and back doors, you'd catch every hoodlum in town." Mimi drifted down to Oregon, then headed north to the hurly-burly of Alaska. "A guy named Phil Ford had an act there. I saw him, and he saw me. Sparks flew...
...heady old days of the Mexican Revolution, stormy Communist Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros used to complain loudly that he was always the fall guy for his comrades: "Let Orozco draw a strong cartoon; Siqueiros was arrested." With the death of Orozco in 1949 and then Diego Rivera in 1958, Siqueiros at 63 is today the sole survivor of the Big Three. Living quietly in his Mexico City mansion with his wife Angelica, downing highballs of unproletarian Scotch (at $18 a fifth), Siqueiros has been turning out portraits at top prices, putting up new murals in hospitals, generally enjoying his reputation...