Word: home-grown
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...hour-long Jack Carter Show, a melange of slow jokes and vaudeville turns, and Your Show of Shows, brilliantly staged by Broadway's Max Liebman and reaching a TV high in literacy, talent and theatricality. Stars of Liebman's show are Sid Caesar, TV's best home-grown comic, and tiny Imogene Coca, an ex-nightclub comedienne. Whether playing the part of young marrieds having the boss to dinner, or a fellow and a girl suffering through the false starts and affectations of a date, they bring a satirical accent to familiar American situations. When Caesar...
Pennsylvania's Governor James Duff had had enough of home-grown Communists: "Instead of putting these guys in jail for five years, they ought to be hanged...
...West Coast the home-grown male often seems to run to an angular, muscular 6 ft. 3 in. 175-pounder who likes to lose himself in the anonymity of a number in an eight-oared shell. Each February hordes of them report to Washington Coach Al Ulbrickson and California's Ky Ebright; each June one or the other of the Western crews manages to give the East a rowing lesson. Only twice in the past 18 years has the West failed to win the big Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Poughkeepsie...
...addition to the Harvard music, entertainment will be supplied by home-grown Freshman talent. Robinson explained that this new feature is an attempt to stimulate Freshman theatrical activities...
...week, 120 teen-agers were hard at work on 550 hilly acres in upstate New York. Boys were digging potatoes, tending 75 dairy cows, painting, sandblasting a new oil storage tank, manufacturing cement blocks for new buildings, remodeling an old lodge into a modern residence hall. Girls were canning home-grown corn, washing & ironing, cooking and serving meals, doing secretarial work. They were the current citizens of the 54-year-old George "Junior Republic" at Freeville, N.Y., and though most of them were trying to make a second start in their young lives, all of them were there of their...