Word: inde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served as an appropriate curtain raiser to the Dotto affair; the story on Frank Sinatra's invasion of Madison, Ind., which became the talk of show people; and the Jack Paar cover story, which helped set an all-TIME circulation high for the issue in which...
...good news flashed through Madison, Ind. (pop. 10,500) like summer heat lightning. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was coming to town to shoot a $2,500,000 production of James Jones's bad bestselling novel, Some Came Running. Local businessmen came running with promises not to raise prices; local police pitched in to protect M-G-M props; the country club and five hotels and motels were turned over to the movie folk. Nothing so exciting had happened to the green, hilly little Ohio River town since P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind to sing in the Pork Palace...
Spin-Off. In Hillisburg, Ind., Mrs. Burl Carter, operator of a family-owned furniture store, accepted a used living-room set in part payment for a new set, sold the used furniture for three frogs' legs and a quart of gooseberries...
...corn husks when it opened at the Majestic Theater. By Broadway standards, it is simpleminded and unsophisticated. It is also warmhearted, brilliantly performed and a lot of fun. The Music Man is Professor Harold Hill, a glib-tongued, fast-footed, woman-chasing rascal of a traveling salesman from Gary, Ind., who bursts into staid River City, charms a frozen-faced populace into digging into their cookie jars and mattresses to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys' marching band that will be led by Professor Hill himself. The show winds up with an enlivened townsfolk who know the score...
Died. Robert Earl Hughes. 32. plausibly billed as the heaviest man in medical history (6 ft.. 1.041 Ibs.), son of an Illinois farmer, traveling attraction on the carny circuit, probable victim of an incurable disfunction of the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus; of uremia; in Bremen, Ind. With a maximum circumference of 10 ft.. 2 in.. Hughes had trouble getting around, lived in a converted semitrailer truck, which nurses climbed into by ladder to attend his final illness...