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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mean that you've felt that you were more of a woman than...
...petition was circulated for his recall, Big Nick allowed that he would like to sign it, "because I would like to see what these people look like." In bounced three sponsors of the petition; the mayor read and signed it, after asking attending newsmen: "What does 'reviling' mean? This petition is full...
...previous marriage, Kimberly. In his three months on Maverick, to which ABC, Warner Bros, and the sponsor, Kaiser Industries, have committed $6,000,000 for 52 shows (13 of them repeats), he has earned a trifling $500 a week; but he insists that "salary doesn't mean a cotton-picking thing to me." Cowpoke Garner and his colleagues get the pleasure of playing from scripts in which a stage direction may read: "Maverick walks up to the camera and turns on that winning smile that has kicked his ratings up to the stratosphere...
...right by the blues on TV, because the blues deserve the best." At air time, Billie sat on top of a bare stool and cuddled up to an old jazz-cult favorite, Fine and Mellow ("My man don't love me, he shakes me awful mean"), and did just dandy by the blues. And, for the balance of CBS's one-hour The Sound of Jazz, the art got what it has so long deserved: a TV showcase uncluttered by the fuss and furbelows that burden most musical telecasts. In the murky, smoke-choked studio, more than...
...week: "Very few Africans know the name of Portuguese Cardinal de Gouveia of Lourengo Marques, Mozambique, the only cardinal in Africa. But they all know that there are 19 African bishops in Africa. Many of them know them all or most of them by name. Though this may not mean any appreciable increase in converts, it does show that Negroes have great pleasure in knowing that any of their number may reach to bishop's rank if he has the attitude of virtue and the education...