Word: iconization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space policy for the Federation of American Scientists. "It had everything to do with making the country feel good. It's about the right stuff, not science. Which is fine with me." Newsman Walter Cronkite, whose coverage of the Mercury missions made him as much of a television icon as the astronauts, agrees that Glenn's upcoming flight "is bringing back a public interest in space flight...
DIED. "BUFFALO BOB" SMITH, 80, revered TV icon and host of the medium's first smash hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in North Carolina. Starting in 1947, the avuncular would-be cowboy (along with his famous marionette) cheerfully presided over Doodyville U.S.A.--home to such goofy characters as Clarabell the Clown and Flubadub. Howdy Doody ran for 13 years, partly a result of Smith's respect for his fans ("You can't kid a kid"). Among the show's contributions to the pop lexicon: the "Peanut Gallery" (his studio audience) and--sorry, Bart Simpson fans--"Cowabunga...
...wasn't the first to fail to find the real life analogue of Sherman McCoy. Hollywood, after all, settled on Tom Hanks, America's icon of decency, to play the pathetic McCoy...
DIED. CONRAD SCHUMANN, 56, unwitting cold war icon whose impromptu 1961 border crossing produced one of the era's most searing images; after hanging himself; in Bavaria, Germany. Shutterbug Peter Leibing stood by--and snapped--as the defiant 19-year-old East German soldier hurdled the tangle of barbed wire that would soon become the Berlin Wall...
...Children and adults alike bought Roy Rogers -- born Leonard Slye, of American Indian extraction, ironically -- as a Hollywood cowboy for two decades, and as a traveling icon of museums and rodeos for years after that. They came to see that palomino Trigger, famously stuffed after the horse's death in 1965 because Rogers "just didn't have the heart to put him in the ground." (Bullet received no such honor.) And to this day they eat at the restaurant chain that bears his name. Why did Roy Rogers endure? Probably because he always stayed clean. He married frequent costar Dale...