Word: lowbrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrialists feel compelled to sponsor the lunar expedition because the Government fails to foresee the trip's military importance. Happily, the script draws the line at romance in the rocket or on the moon, but it does go in for some unrelieved comic relief by a lowbrow crew member from Brooklyn...
...Metropolitan Opera's pretty Coloratura Mimi Benzell, 26, caused a few lowbrow eyebrows to rise when, in a Hollywood nightclub, she unexpectedly gave the customers some lowdown blues and a couple of ladylike bumps. Said she: "I'm making a lot of people like opera that never could stand it before...
...middlebrow Atlantic Monthly, the highbrows' lowbrow Cartoonist Al Capp confessed last week to a secret ambition-"to get published in something that won't be used to wrap fish in the next morning. And so, the other day, I was Writing a book." Its title: I Remember Monster. ("The first part" explained Al "is a memoir of my early days as assistant to a well-known cartoonist.") Under its tomfoolishness, Capp's article in the February issue of the Atlantic (cover by Capp) was a perceptive essay on Charlie Chaplin...