Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Walter Huston, whose acting of homespun character roles made him a longtime stage & screen favorite; of a heart attack, a day after celebrating his 66th birthday; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Canadian-born Actor Huston played his first Broadway bit (In Convict Stripes) in 1905, but spent 15 years in vaudeville before stage fame came to him (Eugene O'Neill's 1924 Desire Under the Elms, the 1938 Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently...
...Sunday himself-Graham and his entourage looked disturbingly like something out of Hollywood. His sharply cut double-breasted suits and high-decibel ties, like those of his Co-Evangelist Grady Wilson, 30, and black-haired, 26-year-old Platform Manager Cliff Barrows, were a smooth contrast to the rumpled, homespun approach of the old school...
...Homespun, poker-playing Frank Chambless Rand, who expanded a horse & buggy shoe-selling route into the biggest U.S. shoe company, had a horror of nepotism. "I've learned in my lifetime," he liked to say, "that friendship is no basis for business, but business is an excellent basis for lasting friendship." Thus when Frank Rand died at 73 last December, his job as board chairman of St. Louis' International Shoe Co. was filled by no relative but by President Byron A. Gray, a former clerk...
...Huck Finn features. He is a master of the mildly distasteful grimace, the quizzical brow, the shrug of simulated incomprehension. His personality has elements of other U.S. entertainers who have won a peculiarly affectionate place in American hearts. Like Will Rogers, Godfrey is the embodiment of the homespun debunker; but where Will fired salvos at Congress, Godfrey snipes at the lesser game of admen and pressagents. Like Bing Crosby, he blends urbanity with the slippered ease of a small-town family man. Like George M. Cohan, he is a Yankee Doodle flag waver...