Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have just read with some amusement the July 4 letter of that blithe spirit, Virgil C. Krebs, of Cicero, Ill. Mr. Krebs sought not only to castigate the Richmond News Leader but the South in general (a popular sport in some parts of this fair land). Can it be that Mr. Krebs of Cicero, Ill. is weak in his own local history? Can it be that Mr. Krebs is unaware that his home town, having been born in sin, nurtured in bathtub gin, brothels and girlie shows, is the same town which grew and prospered and ultimately became...
ZHUKOV: Perhaps the most popular man in Russia, as the result of his World War II victories. Should the power struggle break out again, the army's-and Zhukov's-role might prove decisive. But Zhukov is not in the Politburo, and so far, the evidence is that he has not exerted his strength for other than army ends...
...death to a judicious biography of his late friend Alexander Woollcott. He started writing as an ace reporter for the famed New York Sun of the '90s, then became one of the leading muckrakers of the Teddy Roosevelt era. Later he turned out a whole series of popular romances, one of which, Flaming Youth, trademarked a generation. Finally, from his ancestral seat in New York's Finger Lakes district, he knocked off a succession of York State historical novels. Now, at 84, Sam Adams displays his tireless versatility anew in an amusing collection of sketches written...
...names on TV all summer by producing the replacements for their own comedy hours. In the Gleason spot was CBS's America's Greatest Bands (Sat. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), which presents four different jazz bands each week and thus far has seemed intent on proving how unimaginatively popular music can be presented in a visual medium. In Sid Caesar's NBC spot was Caesar Presents (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), a catastrophically unfunny comedy show. Said the trade sheet Variety: "Originally, it was Caesar's intent to base the summer series on the misadventures of a traveling...
...apocryphal story, Adolphus got the secret formula of the famed brew of a monastery. Actually, he developed the formula with Carl Conrad, a St. Louis restaurateur, tried to match the light beer he found in the Bohemian town of Budweis. He felt that it would become more popular in the U.S. than the heavy beer then being made. He was the first big brewer to perfect refrigerated railroad cars, thus opening vast new markets in the South, installed the first pasteurization process for beer. In 1879 the name Busch first appeared in the company title, and Adolphus was well...