Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mont's Paul Dixon strikes the folksy note by chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...
Born. To Herb Shriner, 35, homespun Hoosier radio-TV comedian-quizmaster (Two for the Money), and Eileen McDermott Shriner, 27: their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan. Names: Kin and Lark. Weights...
There was once in old New England a brand of man called, among other names, a horse trader. By promising anything, eve his homespun shirt, and never paying, he reaped great profits from unsuspecting children and old women. After a while, most people began to think that the horse traders were pulling their legs. The traders, sensing this, decided that there was strength in numbers, and so seven of them banded together...
Then Magsaysay went unabashedly to work building himself up as a homespun hero and as a great friend of America. Said 45-year-old Magsaysay...
...clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide them from their neighbors, but when they do, outsiders get a glimpse of the strange life behind the curtain. Last week Hazleton, Iowa (pop. 550) was still agitated by such an escape: two Amish girls had gone out into the Devil's world...