Word: meara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, August 20 KRAFT MUSIC HALL FROM HAWAII (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Host Don Ho hums along with Guests Bobby Goldsboro and the comedy team of Stiller and Meara...
DAUGHTERS OF THE COUNTRY by Walter O'Meara. 368 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...veins of Americana have been more assiduously mined than the Western fur trade. From Francis Parkman to Bernard De Voto, scholars have unearthed the routes and reminiscences of the "mountain men" in the 19th century, devoting volumes to their exploits. Surprisingly, Novelist and Popular Historian Walter O'Meara's anecdotal appreciation seems to be the first to deal with the lives of the women of the fur traders and mountain men. Not surprisingly, their relationships with women turn out to be as rich and varied as the rest of the mountain legend...
...Indian women who pelted him with live coals, jabbed him with burning poles and, after a warrior had torn off the prisoner's scalp with his teeth, poured a shovelful of live coals onto his exposed skull while he was still alive. Even so, says O'Meara, "beneath her streak of savagery the Indian woman frequently revealed a tenderness and compassion that touched even the casehardened trader." As for the mountain men, they all too often brought their Indian women liquor, prostitution and so much unhappiness that many "country wives" hanged themselves...
...STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a spooky spoof, Allen & Co. suggest that movie musicals be based on oldtime horror films. Tim Conway, Lou Rawls, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara help Steve with the ghost songs...