Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience ratings by CBS's $64,000 Question, the veteran Truth and Consequences last week moved to a new night and a new time (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). M.C. Jack Bailey also decided that the only way to fight money is with money and this week will plunk down a $100,000 jackpot to outbid Question's $64,000. The gimmick: College Student Pat Morris, 19, after being hypnotized and told that she cannot leave her chair, will get the opportunity of picking up $100,000 from a table across the stage. If she can break the hypnosis...
Heads-made of calfskin specially processed to make it extremely hard-are the bottleneck of the banjo business, and hard to come by. Manufacturers were cautious about ordering skins until they were sure the plinkety-plunk was here to stay for a while. They are sure now. Banjos have been invading TV- notably on the Robert Q. Lewis Show and the Canada Dry commercials. Harvard and M.I.T. students have formed banjo groups, and the University of Wisconsin has hired Virtuoso José Silva to play a "History of the Banjo" series in the fall...
...most exciting new jazz artist at work today, has strong ideas about how his audiences should behave while he plays. There should be no loud joking or talking; no table-hopping; no eating. Drinking, if absolutely necessary, should be done in moderation. "Some people," he says with horror, "plunk a full bottle of Bourbon down on a table right in front of the bandstand-you know the sort that will order a whole bottle." Brubeck does not feel that way because he is egotistical but because he takes his work with a deep, almost mystical seriousness. When...
...oppressive summer weather dawdled into autumn, the polite plunk of tennis balls could still be heard on the grass courts of eastern country clubs, where tennis came of age. But the tall, tanned young men who had spent the summer putting the touch on tournament committees with their "amateur" expense accounts had almost all gone west and south for a season...
...secret missiles that Boeing sees the aircraft of the future. Bill Allen and Wellwood Beall are convinced that the airplane and the missile are growing ever closer, will eventually become one and the same. When that day comes, Boeing's Allen will be ready, as before, to plunk down Boeing's bankroll to back the aircraft its engineers build. Allen knows that the future will be risky, but he has unlimited confidence in Boeing's team. Nevertheless, Allen likes to stroll over and gently finger the sharp spines of his blooming cactus plant, remembering the dark days...