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Word: jameses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Numb. With admirable attention to the truth, the Goodyear Theater (NBC) presented The Obenauf Story, the heroic accomplishment of Lieut. James Edward Obenauf, who saved himself, a fellow officer and a $2,000,000 airplane when he landed a crippled six-jet B-47 at Dyess Air Force Base near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: High Adventure | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Alias Jesse James (Hope Enterprises; United Artists), for moviegoers who have almost given up Hope, is a pleasant surprise: a Bob Hope farce that is actually funny, and sometimes downright hilarious. Comic Hope is cast as "the world's worst insurance agent," a 19th century nincompoop who caps his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: The New Pictures | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

"What do you hope to achieve with such colossal stupidity?" his boss roars, and Hope meekly replies: "I wanted to become your assistant." Instead, he is ordered to head west, find Jesse James and keep him alive at all costs. "B-b-but." Hope stammers, "I'm liable to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: The New Pictures | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Out at the James ranch, Hope is met by Ma James (Mary Young), a dear little old lady with a rifle in her lap. As she oils it she quavers, "Ah'm jes' cleanin' up after the boys." Next morning Jesse announces wearily that he has to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: The New Pictures | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Died. James G. Stewart, 77, Ohio Supreme Court judge, longtime (1938-47) mayor of Cincinnati, father of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart; of a heart attack; in Louisville.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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