Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FOLKWAYS. Live and recorded music, including records of Josh White, the Clancys...
Wanted-Dead or Alive (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Only another shoot-'em-up, but a welcome sign of a change in the weather. When Steve McQueen, as Bounty Hunter Josh Randal, takes up with "the Montana Kid," he will be the first of the fast-draw men to desert reruns and start fresh shows for the new fall season...
...owners on some 10% of Conde Nast's stock, Sam Newhouse assumed proprietorship of one of the oldest periodical publishers in the U.S. Established in 1855, Street & Smith prospered with an array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with time, the derring-do pulps gave way to dreary ones: Detective Story...
...chief undoing was in giving over half the program to his son and daughter; the posters had proclaimed: "Josh White --Ballade and Blues," but with the White family singing campfire ditties like "There's a Hole in the Ground," the show was certainly not as advertised. Teenaged Josh Jr. tried (his own word) a half dozen numbers in an adolescent tone reminiscent of Jimmie Rodgers; Daughter Beverly fared better, mostly because her material far outweighed her brother's often embarrassingly juvenile repertoire...
...feeling of this writer is that Josh White may well be over the hill. It's an uncomfortable thought, yet the signs are unmistakably there. Although someone mentioned that Josh White could keep going downhill for twenty years, the hope is that he will recover...