Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every man in the band. Cut out the monkey business. Just give the people what they paid to hear...
...Family Affair. A confident but unpretentious and modest man of 47 who goes in for motorboat cup-racing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), Big Brother Guy gives most of the credit to brother "Carm," 46, whose distinctive singing, saxophone and phrasing have always set the tone of the band. Lebert's trumpet playing Guy rates almost as high. He puts his own talents at the bottom: "My fiddle never did anything." In fact, it's been years since he played...
...rocket which rose last week from White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., reached an altitude of 95 miles. The most important man in the act, at least to innocent bystanders, was Herbert L. Karsch, flight safety officer. Karsch's job is to keep rockets from leaving the 90-by-35-mile area of uninhabited desert and mountains where they are supposed to hit. The authorities would consider it unfortunate, for instance, if a wandering rocket were to smack El Paso...
...romantic cliche: the theater is "the fabulous invalid" that never dies. By this summer the invalid had grown so feeble that a doctor was called in. For diagnosis and prescription, the League of New York Theatres (most of Manhattan's producers and playhouse operators) hired Public Relations Man Edward L. Bernays...
Elijah was a man lunching in a Manhattan sidestreet cafeteria. Day after day, Rowe found him eating there at noon, and for three weeks he returned to study each line and plane of the luncher's face. Artist and subject never exchanged a word. With his wife helping on the voluminous research needed for costumes and backgrounds, Painter Rowe worked steadily on his 32 illustrations for 3½ years. As a result, he has become deeply concerned with the Bible and the Christian faith. Said he last week: "I don't know how to explain it in words...