Word: plowboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jubilee U.S.A. (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). For the jukebox . set - a regular hoedown with Country-Western caterwaulers from Nashville to Denver. M.C.: Eddy Arnold, "The Tennessee Plowboy...
...Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero, an old pal of the boss but also a shrewd politico with ideas of his own. A onetime plowboy who became a topflight lawyer, Rivero professes strong loyalty to Batista but obviously plans to campaign as a Great Compromiser, appealing to the majority that is fed up with both sides. Said he: "If I am elected President I will immediately ask Congress for a general political amnesty." He made it clear that this would apply to Castro. The rebels' reply was a renewed pledge to boycott the elections-and renewed violence. They set bombs...
Still a Giant. Off the field the friendly, homespun ex-plowboy showed a financial sagacity rare among ballplayers. He earned up to $80,000 a year from the Indians, and on the side coined money from half a dozen other business ventures, even had himself incorporated (Ro-Fel Inc.) in the state of Ohio. He also slipped gracefully into the role of solid citizen, last year headed Ohio's polio-fund drive...
...real friends and apparently without desire for any. He has no small talk, and no interest in anybody else's. He is aloof from most of his colleagues, including veteran Zionists with whom he has marched since, an immigrant from Czarist Poland, he began his career as a plowboy in 1907 in a struggling settlement in Galilee...
Eddy Arnold Show (Tues. & Thurs., 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) tries gamely to flesh out its hillbilly tunes with production numbers in the Hit Parade manner. Billed as "the Tennessee Plowboy," unsponsored Eddy Arnold strums a guitar, beats out songs like Moonlight & Roses in country rhythm, and gets informal support from an earnest, shiny-faced trio called the Dickens Sisters...