Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harrison picked up his '62 beer mug...
First Million. As a starting pitcher, Sad Sam ("Take a look at this mug. What else can they call me?") is at his grim best against the Giants' challengers. He has five wins over Milwaukee, three over Los Angeles. What is more, Jones is willing and able to trudge in from the bullpen to save a game. Despite its long medical history, Jones's arm is plenty strong enough to stand the strain. It always was; his problem was control. Although he had not played much baseball growing up in Monongah, W. Va. (pop. 1,622), Jones developed...
...first day of basic training. Immediate buddyhood is established among Sal Mineo, a jivey cat from Manhattan's Lower East Side; Barry Coe, an Ivy sort from Glen Cove, L.I.; and Gary Crosby, who is cast as a rich Oregon rancher's son but manages to mug, wheeze and groan like a Bing from another planet...
...trio consisted of mug-faced Moe Howard, his egg-bald brother Curly, and tuber-nosed Larry Fine. When Curly fell ill in 1946, he was replaced by brother Shemp, who, after his death in 1955, was in turn replaced by Old Vaudevillian Joe DeRita. Today the trio's comedy is still at eye level-Moe poking his fingers straight at the cornea. But the kids' enthusiasm has opened up the clubs to the Stooges, and the kids to the clubs. Most of the spots played by the Stooges have afternoon shows for children; one club offered...
...listening. Next day, when the show went on for TV audiences across the U.S., it was short indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left to mug his way through an unplanned 20-minute melee that had the somewhat sweaty aroma of a combination Arthur Murray, Lawrence Welk, Dick Clark free...