Word: hillbillyism
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Divorced. Merle Travis, 46, hillbilly singing star and songwriter, (Sixteen Tons and I'm Sick and Tired of You, Little Darlin'); by Bettie Lou Travis, 40; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after eight years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.
As Williams, Tennessee-born George Hamilton gives mere lip service to his role. Alternately sulky or smiling, he drawls convincingly but never seems deeply touched by the megrims of the "hillbilly Shakespeare" whose reaction to fame is to mistreat his wife (Susan Oliver) and bedevil his loyal manager (Red Buttons...
"The funnies are becoming funny again," says Comics Researcher David Manning White of Boston University. "It is a verbal humor and it sticks. It hurts a little bit." Adds Al Capp, who has produced some pungent humor of his own-and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography-in the hillbilly...
Clyppan & Hit. But even the most casual reader can be repaid by Hogben's excursion through the history, and past the astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said...
Highlight of the festival was a premiere of the movie Your Cheatin' Heart, the life story of Singer-Songwriter Hank Williams, the "hillbilly Shakespeare." The songs on the sound track are sung by Williams' son, Hank Jr., 16, who wheels around town in the white Cadillac in which...