Word: hillbillyism
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Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Nine Day Wonder with John Kerr as a small-town boy who becomes a big-time hillbilly singer.
Thanks to the echoes of his English success, the U.S. career of onetime Hillbilly Singer Haley, 31, has picked up speed. He has scheduled a major U.S. TV appearance, expects to play Las Vegas. The credit for his new good fortune he attributes solely to the perception of the British...
But suddenly the figure comes to life. The lips part, the eyes half close, the clutched guitar begins to undulate back and forth in an uncomfortably suggestive manner. And wham! The midsection of the body jolts forward to bump and grind and beat out a low-down rhythm that takes...
In the South, the Republicans fought a holding operation with incumbent Republican Congressmen increasing their margins, and in the industrial areas of the Midwest the Republicans actually gained two seats. In much of the Midwest-primarily the areas in which the farm vote was critical-the Republicans were losers rather...
Elvis Presley, the 21-year-old bobby-soxers' delight, shot the Ed Sullivan Show's rating up to 43.7-highest in two years. Actor Charles Laughton, his glib tongue in his dumpling cheek, introduced Elvis with: "Ed insisted I give a high tone to the proceedings," then, to...