Word: pheasants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baby face onstage with a touring band called the Royal Peacocks around 1925. Dick Powell Jr., 15, could hit the road earlier. With his mother, June Allyson, a still wholesome but depressingly matronly 42, the lad was appearing in a comedy called Good-By, Ghost at Chicago's Pheasant Run Playhouse. The show is plain turkey, but Dick Jr. seemed to have all of his late father's spirited style...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A revival, now that the football season is over, of a series about hunting and fishing, featuring this week Craig (Peter Gunn) Stevens hunting Indian tigers in the jungles of Bundi (with the maharajah), and Bandleader Phil Harris shooting pheasant in Nebraska (without Alice Faye...
...looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming, elk from Montana, bear from Georgia-not to mention coon, possum, squirrel and deer from his own 100,000-acre preserve in Alabama...
...attention to the progress of a new management team, France's Bull-General Electric, the giant computer maker, last week arranged a rolling press conference aboard a special Paris-Angers train, brought along President Henri Desbrueres, who answered questions while pretty hostesses plied 93 reporters with smoked salmon, pheasant and wine. Seeking publicity for the Lido nightclub, flamboyant French P.R. Man Georges Cravenne last year invited a chic crowd to an otherwise ordinary première, asked the women to wear evening pajamas...
...impale the babies. Militant missionaries boasted of the peasants they shot after baptising them. One of them, an American, wrote: 'I sent eight hundred and forty-one new souls to heaven this week.' And there is that German officer having fun in Peking: 'When I go pheasant shooting, I shoot cocks and spare hens; but when hunting Chinese, I kill them all, men and women, old and young...