Word: macs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such sharpshooter is debonair Kurt Bader, 36, an ingenious German whose flair for showmanship unhappily surpasses his marksmanship. With his wife Hildegard, Kurt billed his show as "Aal Cherry & Mac Zero, the World-Famous Sharpshooting Act." His act involved a machine like an egg beater, across which pretty little Mac, arrayed in shorts and bra, could be tastefully spread-eagled and rotated as a "human windmill." Last week, after putting their two daughters to bed in a hotel room nearby, Aal & Mac went into their act at Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped...
...stage lights dimmed, drums rolled and a red spotlight played on Mac as Aal raised his rifle that night last week. Crack -and one ball was down; crack-and nothing happened. Would Aal go on after missing with one shot? He did. The third ball fell, and the audience sighed its relief. When the fourth ball dropped, the audience was roaring applause. Then the fifth shot rang out, and again no ball fell...
...During the campaign, both candidates made use of ghosts. Some of Stevenson's: Herbert Agar, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Archibald Mac-Leish, Bernard DeVoto. Samuel Rosenman. James Wechsler. Some of Eisenhower's: Stanley High, Gabriel Hauge, C. D. Jackson, Emmet Hughes...
Edgar Bergen-CharlieMcCarthy Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Guest, Fred Mac-Murray...
...first time since Donald Mac-Lean and Guy Burgess of Britain's Foreign Office disappeared more than two years ago, Moscow was provoked to comment on the case. The Soviet propaganda weekly New Times last week denied that Burgess and MacLean had voluntarily gone or had been lured behind the Iron Curtain. "The insolent, provocative nature of these theories," said the magazine, "stinks to high heaven." As for the recent disappearance of Mrs. MacLean and her three children from Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), said New Times, that is "insignificant in itself and without the slightest connection with the Soviet...