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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Erwin's Dixieland band plays with vigor verging on skill and humor verging on corn at Nick's, at the corner of Seventh and 10th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gotham Lights Beckon Exam Weary Students | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

Soon Tex caught an even more important eye-Walter Chrysler's. Colbert helped Chrysler's son-in-law Edgar Garbisch (the famed West Point center and dropkicker) organize Tish Inc. (paper handkerchiefs). Colbert did such a good job that when Chrysler wanted Nick Kelley to open an office in Chrysler's Detroit headquarters, Colbert was the natural choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: External Combustion | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

These qualities might outweigh Halls' pat, nick-of-time ending, some weakness in its basic plot motivation and a tendency to slop over into histrionics. What betrays the picture is a crude compromise with its producers' ideas of topical needs. Thus, the mood of tension and fear that goes before the amphibious attack is suddenly dissipated when the landing itself takes place to the jauntily aggressive tune of the Marine Corps hymn as it might be played by a recruiting band. Even worse is a final battlefield oration by Actor Jack

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Separated "too much and too long" by "professional requirements" during their eleven years of marriage, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor decided that a California divorce was the only way out. Feeling the same way, as of last week: Elizabeth Taylor, after seven months of marriage to Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr.; Betty Mutton and Ted Briskin, who had been trying again after several separations and a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...famous segment of 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth. Pops Foster was already the best bass player when your father was half your age. Wild Bill Davison leads the band at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder. Ralph Sutton plays between sets. Nick's features Pee Wee Erwin's enthusiastic group at 10th and Seventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

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