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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newly sobered by the payola scandal (see below), the nation's top jocks were acknowledging what everybody has suspected for some time-that their teen-age audience has begun to walk out on them. The popularity of rock 'n' roll began to slack off about a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Decline & Fall? | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

It is time, concluded Dr. Knox, for the medical profession to begin an educational campaign on the harmful effects of excess exposure to sun, and advocate use of preparations to ward off both premature aging of the skin and cancer. Blondes, he suggested, can keep that schoolgirl complexion longer if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Five Finger Exercise (by Peter Shaffer) starts off with the look of one more mousy English country-house play, with the sound of one more reminiscent and easily resolvable tune. But it becomes increasingly cat-and-mousy, with a tune that introduces subtle dissonances, ominous themes, crashing chords. The Harrington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Opening the season against Wake Forest, Lucas shook off his first-half jitters ("Man, I was scared") to sink 16 points, monopolize the backboards with 28 rebounds. Final score: Ohio State 77, Wake Forest 69. Still, the team and Lucas looked so rocky that Coach Taylor could not sleep the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Luke | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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