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HOLLYWOOD--Bob Burns, bazooka-tooting movie and radio hillbilly, was sued for $70,000 damages today by Daniel Hoge, who claimed false imprisonment.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/26/1940 | See Source »

One fall day in 1892, a raw 22-year-old named Blanford Barnard Dougherty came down out of the mountains of western North Carolina to the little town of Lenoir. Ahorse and by shanks' mare, he had traveled all the stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hillbilly's School System | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Except for a single bulb burning in a downstairs office, the lights went out in the great white Governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, the night Sam Jones defeated Earl Long in the primary run-off for Louisiana's governorship. Five uniformed officers guarded the grounds, chasing away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Twelve Years (Concluded) | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Supporting Uncle Dave in the Grand Ol' Opry Company are a half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Died. James Willis ("J. Will") Taylor, 59, Republican boss of Tennessee, for 21 years a Congressman; of a heart attack; in La Follette, Tenn. In his early campaign days, J. Will Taylor, then known as "HillBilly Bill," electioneered by jumping over farmers' fences, plowing their fields for them while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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