Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were returned to "the music of Ramon Raquello and Star Dust." There was a second flash and a third, and soon some 32 million people were hearing about an invasion of grey monsters who glistened like wet leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with an adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic thriller, The War of the Worlds, and launch the most garish panic in the annals of broadcasting...
...narrator, Ed Murrow offered two reasons for Welles's chilling success: 1) the recent concern over Munich had badly spooked the U.S. public and 2), Halloween merely served to intensify man's "instinctive terror of the great unknown...
...toothed dragon who could not breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he washed his flop-ears: "I can't do a thing with them," or Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Halloween, or their foil and sweetheart Fran Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear to watch the puppets...
Navy-type peacoats and chauffeurs' caps, which were in the truck. Each also was given a pistol and a Halloween-type mask; each had gloves and wore either crepe-sole shoes or rubbers so their footsteps would be muffled...
Vintage. In Sparta, Wis., Tavernkeeper Carl J. Waters was fined $250 on a charge that when children came around to his saloon on Halloween chanting "Trick or treat," he gave them shots of whisky...