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Word: martha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucy grabbed second with 50.1. while Jackie Gleason (CBS), the former leader, dropped to third with 48.1. The rest of the Top Ten: 4) Toast of the Town (CBS). 45.5; 5) Dragnet (NBC). 44.1; 6) Disneyland (ABC). 42.4; 7) Milton Berle (NBC). 42.0; 8) Groucho Marx (NBC), 41.1; 9) Martha Raye (NBC). 40.4; 10) Producers' Showcase: Dateline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shift at the Top | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...little while ago, an elderly (90) Ohio lady named Mrs. Martha Goodman, who lives in the village of Union City (pop. 1,500), dropped a note to ailing Pope Pius XII telling him two old-fashioned home cures for hiccups. Mrs. Goodman's first remedy: breathing into a sealed paper bag through a hole cut to fit the hiccupper's mouth-a prescription she once got from a doctor. She also mentioned her own time-tested therapy, "even better than that of the doctor": repeatedly emptying the lungs by exhaling in long drawn-out breaths. Last week, good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...most popular TV shows, according to last week's Nielsen report: 1) Jackie Gleason (CBS), 2) Toast of the Town (CBS), 3) I Love Lucy (CBS), 4) Milton Berle (NBC), 5) Dragnet (NBC), 6) Disneyland (ABC), 7) Martha Raye (NBC), 8) Max Liebman Presents (NBC), 9) Groucho Marx (NBC), 10) Jack Benny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Leaders | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Marian Anderson, Sid Caesar, Bob Hope, Carl Sandburg, Martha Raye, Perry Como...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Courtship. In Roanoke, Va., Charles Lee Dickerson, 71, made up his mind at last, married Mrs. Martha Shelton, 70, whose father had frightened him into breaking off their engagement 52 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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