Word: ole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...
...scene is set at a party. An aggressive hostess is urging Rosie, a reject from a Pete Seeger concert, to strum her ole guitar. Rosie offers a little tune she picked up from an oppressed refugee once...
Died. Harold Ogden ("Chic") Johnson, 66, junior member of the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...
...muzzling" is South Carolina's J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate's deepest-dyed conservatives and most colorful characters. Even his colleagues from below the Mason-Dixon Line marvel at Thurmond's passionate devotion to the Southern way of life. "Listen at ole Strom out there," said one Southern Senator while Thurmond was in the midst of a stem-winding segregationist speech a few years ago. "He really believes all that stuff...
...seven years as head coach at Mississippi State and Texas, soft-spoken Darrell Royal had never turned out a team that beat the University of Mississippi or a team that won a bowl game. Matched against Ole Miss in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Royal's Longhorns did both at once. They jumped to an early lead and hung on to win 12-7. In New Orleans' all-white Sugar Bowl, top-ranked Alabama relied on a stingy defense to eke out a 10-3 victory over Arkansas. In Pasadena's Rose Bowl, a crowd...