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...dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Divorced. By Arlene Dahl, 27, titian-haired cinemactress (The Outriders, Scene of the Crime): Lex Barker, 33, Hollywood's tenth "Tarzan," after charging that he called her "a hick from Minnesota" because she refused a predinner cocktail; after 18 months of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 27, 1952 | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...player could be called out-standing for the Crimson, it was Captain John who scored seven points to pace the first-quarter spurt, which ended with the Crimson in front, 19 to 14. Hick Lionetie ended the game with 15 points high for the Crimson, while seniors Hickey and Gerry Murphy also played well after entering the pame in second half...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: Eli Five Romps Over Crimson, 71-51 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Real Hick Town." The Journal dominates most of Wisconsin and swamps its only Milwaukee competitor, Hearst's morning Sentinel (circ. 169,445), partly because it never forgets that Milwaukee, in the words of one Journalist, is "a real hick town." The Journal covers it like a town gossip. No club meeting, ladies' bake sale, wedding or business luncheon is too small to rate a Journal story. But its wide coverage of the town's doings has not made the Journal necessarily loved by all its readers. Independent, sometimes cantankerous and always sharp in its editorial opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No. I | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 18, 1950 | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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