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But what televiewers see on their screens is the sort of cheerful rowdiness that has been rare in the U.S. since the days of the silent movies' Keystone Comedies. Lucille submits enthusiastically to being hit with pies; she falls over furniture, gets locked in home freezers, is chased by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sassafrassa, the Queen | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

The Pride of St. Louis (20th Century-Fox) is an amiable, minor-league movie biography of major-league baseball's Jerome Herman Dean (Dan Dailey). In familiar screen style, the picture chronicles the ups & downs of "Dizzy's" career: his rise from Arkansas hillbilly with a knack for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

¶ Candidate Harold Stassen intends using two actors to play an "average" husband & wife who will ask questions culled from the letters written him by citizens interested in his views. ¶ When Georgia's Senator Richard Russell moves on to Timber's platform, he will leave behind him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Timber | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

WHRB's weekly request show, "Barn Howl," will feature live performances by New England and Greater Boston hillbilly stars Sunday, April 20. The program will be designed to appeal to devotees of Western and Hillbilly music.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Jamboree | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Re your March 24 cover of Estes Kefauver: Is it the presidency of the United States he is seeking, or the lead in a hillbilly comedy ?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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