Word: hillbillyism
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It was where another kind of man held power that the worst trouble came. In Arkansas, a slightly sophisticated hillbilly named Orval Faubus took hapless note of his power as governor and forcibly kept the Negro children out of Little Rock's Central High School. There was no reasonable...
Free as a Breeze. City Slicker Gay, whose 200-man rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at...
When Gay heard that CBS was thinking of a morning hillbilly show, he cut a pilot film of Dean that sold CBS bigwigs. Within two weeks Jimmy Dean had become the first performer in three years to clout NBC in the morning rating war. His fans wrote up to 25...
CBS. Once experiment-minded in summer, CBS contemplates only one new show: a live comedy-variety spot for young (29) Dick Van Dyke, an Orson Beanish kind of comic who earlier served on To Tell the Truth. Humorist Sam Levenson's quiz game Two for the Money will share...
Scared to Death. Easygoing Ernie grew up on a small farm near Bristol, a town (pop. 40,000) lying half in Virginia and half in Tennessee. There he ploughed tobacco rows, hunted coons and went cat-fishing. Occasionally the sheriff would ask him and his mother to come down to...