Word: mingo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, October 12 DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When ole Dan'l sets out to recover some stolen gold for Guest Star Maurice Evans, his Indian buddy, Mingo (Ed Ames) keeps the hijackers occupied with an aria from The Marriage of Figaro. Operation successful...
There is a fellow who plays the hero's faithful Indian companion in NBC's Daniel Boone TV series. On screen, he is an Oxford-educated part- Cherokee half-breed who goes by the name of Mingo. That's about all anybody needs to know about the Daniel Boone show. But Mingo-well, he's something special, even if the show is not. His showbiz handle is Ed Ames, he is the former baritone lead with the Ames
Cowboy Cutout. Still, it is likely that at least 10 million people will persist in remembering him as the Mingo who threw the Johnny Carson Tonight show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took...
...Bannerman, famed for her 1899 classic Little Black Sambo. The manuscript had been in her lawyer's safe for 20 years. But why is Squibba white? The author never lets on. After Sambo's fabulous success, there had followed a whole Bannerman series of Little Black books: Mingo, Bobtail, Quasha and Quibba. Whatever her color, Squibba loves the same things her little black predecessors did, and ends her adventures with a pile of pancakes just like the ones Black Mumbo whipped up for Sambo 67 years...