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The circus held him for only half a year; then his Wanderjahre began for fair. Naples, Tunis, Casablanca, Paris, Rotterdam, Hamburg-he hit them all, playing a guitar and singing the hillbilly songs he had learned from his U.S. Army buddies. Between 1951 and 1953 he rode a Finnish tanker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Verbeulte Stimme | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

In spite of Mr. Dyer-Bennett's obvious skill in singing what one observer called the "la de da" ballads, he becomes, after steady listening, as entertaining as a ten-year-old Irish tenor singing "Danny Boy" for a local talent show. Dyer-Bennett's voice, unfortunately, lacks that twist...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Music: Dyer-Bennet, and Lois Pardue | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

With her waist-length pigtail, goofy clowning and hillbilly charm, Comedienne Burnett seems to have escaped from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Off Broadway, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

On the hustings 01' Gene is verminous in his tactics, but as raffishly delightful as a hillbilly Jim Curley. He waves his false teeth in the air and slobbers: "Them N-double-A-C-P goons knocked my teeth out." When a heckler asks about $14,000 grafted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shrunken-Head Faulkner | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

10:00 Hillbilly at Harvard

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Program Guide | 3/18/1959 | See Source »

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