Word: nothin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Necklines & Blushes. Crime shows also got their lumps (in Gathings' words: "TV is a continuation of nothin' in the world but shootin' and killin' and stompin' on people in alleys"), but sex got by far the biggest play. Illinois' Republican Congressman Fred Busbey (who is both an Elk and a Moose) gave a resounding if not very relevant introduction to Chicago News Commentator Paul Harvey as "one of the greatest living Americans today" and one who has long been in the "forefront of the fight on Communism." Harvey attributed TV's woes...
...mobilization program. They were admittedly acting mainly for dramatic effect. "In no other way," said labor, "can we effectively impress upon the American people the great wrongs being perpetrated." The only labor leader left in an advisory capacity: John L. Lewis, quietly smirking and, like Tar-Baby, saying nothin...
Sugar was asked about this. "Look," said he, "I'm not lookin' toward nothin'. That's my manager talkin...
...Louis Cardinals in the '30s 39-year-old Jay Hanna Dean is no radio & TV novice. His broadcasts of St. Louis ball games during the past nine years have put him in a position to spend each winter "huntin', fishin', and doin' nothin'." But his new job with the Yankees, over Du Mont's New York television station WABD, marks the first time he has had to handle commercials (Ballantine beer and Philip Morris cigarettes). "Some words are pretty doggone hard-if I cain't pronounce them, I'll skip...
...soda, but after 17 years on the wagon, Teddy abstained. "I still feel bitter," he said, "but I got to dissipate it. It isn't any good that way." In a tawdry North LaSalle Street walkup, Vera Walush thumbed through a deck of cards and observed: "I got nothin...