Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief mechanic at a Memorial Drive garage had two theories about the attacks. "It's probably a guy who lives in that house by the tree," he stated. "But there's something strange about these jobs," he added. "They always come in two's, around the nights of a full moon. It doesn't seem natural...
...What has Welk got? According to the critics, nothing. They think his Champagne Music sounds more like melodic 7-Up. His oleaginous manner and grin have won him some envious labels, including "Liberace of the accordion" and "Cornbelt Guy Lombardo." Replies Welk: "In order to be successful on TV. you have to play what people understand. Our music is always handled crisply. It's rhythmic and has a light beat all the time. Our notes are cut up so they sparkle. And, against the sparkle, we have an undercurrent of smoothness in violin, organ and accordion...
...William Penn Hotel, where the band wore white tie and tails that "hid the farm a little but didn't hide all of it." Welk went on network radio in Pittsburgh and began to be known nationally, was good enough by 1947 to fill in for Guy Lombardo in Manhattan. Since 1951 Welk has been playing regularly at the Aragon, an ancient ballroom in Venice, Calif., where he draws about 12,000 people a week. But whether he is playing in New York or California, on radio or TV, he aims his music directly at the Middle West, observes...
...home to mother after running through two husbands and an unspecified number of lovers. But things are tough at home too. Mama (Judith Evelyn) gets a faraway look whenever Hilda begins blithering about life. And rascally Jean Pierre Aumont wants to bed her, not wed her. True enough, wealthy Guy Madison has honorable intentions, but Hilda thinks he is something of a cluck. She marries him, anyway, only to have Guy's meanly suspicious mother take her revenge by dying of a heart attack...
Hilda makes the stunned discovery that, because of Guy's queasy feelings about his departed mother, she has been trapped into what the tabloids call a "kissless" marriage. So. naturally, Hilda turns for solace to lecherous Jean Pierre. When Guy surprises them in their love nest, he is upset and punches Aumont on the jaw. Hilda goes reeling home for her handful of pills, but-naturally-Guy gets there in time to call for a stomach pump, and tells Hilda he is dreadfully sorry about the whole thing...