Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, with the poetic license of storytellers through the ages, TV Comedian Steve Allen updated the Grimm fairy tale in jazzdom's Down Beat magazine last spring. It was intended only as a private joke for bopsters, told in the latest Tin Pan Alley argot, where "cool" means good, "crazy" means wonderful and anything that is really tops is simply called "the most." But the tale quickly reached a larger public when Manhattan Disk Jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins read it over the air, then recorded it for Brunswick. The record has sold a reported 200,000 copies to become...
...some, single-minded Doug Hepburn, beefing up like a young bull, was a big joke, but Doug stuck to his routine. After he quit high school, he worked summers as a lifeguard at city beaches, winters as a hotel doorman. Once, separating two drunks grappling in the lobby, Doug yanked at the top tippler, accidentally sent him hurtling through the air like Superman. In local weight-lifting contests, Doug sometimes claimed to have broken a world record; most spectators figured he was bragging. Vancouver newspapers buried Doug's exploits as sports-page filler stuff. Sometimes, in news famines...
News, Not Jokes. Tampering with the cover is not the only thing Muggeridge has done. Under his regime, writing and drawing are firmly tied to the news ("If a joke has no relevance, or its connections are obsolete, it's out"). As a result, putting Punch to press-once a quiet, timeless ritual-now has all the excitement of a city room covering a fast-breaking, big news story. Articles on the uproar in Iran are jammed in at press time, issues are held to make them more timely, reports on the United Nations, Korea and hydrogen bomb replace...
...Sinclair Lewis' village atheists, he was born on the American frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety pin and he'd up his socks with two pins moored to his pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious organizations "chain stores," and individual churches "retail outlets." Women apparently could not resist him. nor he, them. "What...
...feasible"). Jupiter (well sung and acted by Baritone Ralph Herbert) takes Juno and the other gods on a junket to Hades, where they bump into Eurydice; after a few random shots from Cupid's bow, everything ends in a happy shambles. The "go-to-hell" joke is worked pretty hard in the dialogue, but that is offset by Offenbach's tunes. At least two of them. An Old Love Dies and Brunswick Maine, could be hits in any century...