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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard enough to figure how the handsome, hard-eyed guy in the Ivy League lapels keeps a straight face while he straightens out such impossible plots. It is even harder to figure how his audience keeps from collapsing with laughter. But they both manage. Introduced by NBC (Monday, 9-9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) this fall as a kind of literate Mike Hammer, Private Eye Gunn in less than two months was pressing the prizewinning Danny Thomas Show, in latest surveys ranks near the top of NBC programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Top Gunn | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...guy who was good because he introduced a new conception of dark tones which gave power and force to the contrast of a few bright and brilliant colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...years the work was profitable but depressingly anonymous. What finally got Backus better known was turning the lampshade boor into a radio character. Name: Hubert Updyke III, a hilarious snob who insisted that his ancestors landed at Cadillac Rock. Hubert bought cars by the gross, drove around with Guy Lombardo's Royal "Canoodians" instead of a radio, had a little man on the hood to work as a windshield wiper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Man in the Lampshade | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Heat & Light. Scott's most startling idea was to send to Formosa monosyllabic Football Editor Annis (the "Loquacious Lithuanian") Stukus, onetime coach of the Edmonton Eskimos and British Columbia Lions. Scott's theory: "Stukus will give the average guy a sense of identification with where the hell Formosa is and what's going on there." Stukus filed some earnest Hemingway-like prose, scored a major beat by wrangling an exclusive interview with Chiang Kaishek. Though the session produced nothing new, Scott delightedly ran Footballer Stukus' picture cheek by jowl with the Gimo on the front page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sunshine in Vancouver | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...record of 56 points, made last year against Seton Hall. Said N.Y.U. Coach Lou Rossini ruefully: "He's as great a basketball player as I've ever seen. I guess the only way to stop him would be to put four men on him and let one guy cover the other four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big O | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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