Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pink-cheeked, boyish Gary Bok loves good food, good drink, good male singing...
Uncle Dave Macon, age 70, has gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...
...perhaps TIME readers can do so. As one, I submit Hangovera as a suitable title for that period following the Torrid Twenties Jamboree. Bitter tongues and family quarrels; sour medicines and the doctor's bill;-a morning after if there ever was one, complete with Pink Elephants...
...Burk is modest. Last week, when he was told of the award, his already pink cheeks turned the color of the apples on his dad's farm, and he said: "Alice Marble should have got it." But the 600 exathletes, sportswriters and promoters polled by the A. A. U. liked Joe best, gave second place to Charles ("Chuck") Fenske, Wisconsin miler, and third place to Tennist Marble. Their reasons for picking...
Just nine months ago pink-cheeked, boyish Gary Bok, publisher of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, walked into an editorial meeting and announced with pride that he had hired as editor at $15,000 a year one of the best-known newspapermen in the U. S.: Stanley Walker...