Word: oliveres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A short (5 ft. 7 in.), stocky man with a mustache and goatee, Smith has been a cab driver for the past five years, paying a daily fee of $16.50 to use a "rent-a-cab." From that investment he can expect $100 a week-in a good week-as...
The scene is from a 1929 two-reeler starring, as the salesmen, those two heroes of the harebrained, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. To the uninitiated, the mayhem may seem just a grand exercise in slam-bang slapstick. But to a fan club called the Sons of the Desert, it...
"I was brought up on S.S. Pierce's groceries," remarked Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136...
Five weeks ago, the so-called United Network went on the TV screens in 106 U.S. cities with the Las Vegas Show, a two-hour club crawl of the "Strip." The program, promised United President Oliver Treyz, would be "the most exciting and dynamic variety show ever televised," and would...
Perils & Glory. Individual Negroes have shown valor in every war: Crispus Attucks was the first American to die under British fire in the Boston Massacre; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, himself perhaps part Negro, mustered many colored sailors aboard his men-of-war in 1812; a battalion of 600 Negroes turned...