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Word: popular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davy Crockett, popular "King of the Wild Frontier," whose ballad, television series, and coonskin caps have made him the new idol of America's children, was actually a vain political stooge in real life, two College professors agreed yesterday...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Davy Crockett a Stooge, Professors Claim | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

...script, TIME'S Foreign News Editor Thomas Griffith and a few members of his writing staff were to re-enact one of the frequent story conferences that are an important part of TIME'S editorial work. BBC plans to show the film later this month on its popular TV program, London Town, to give Britons an insight into TIME'S editorial operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Even though it is still popular in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coexistence on the Turf | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Valerie Bettis' version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Dancer Youskevitch happily strutted his muscular way through the gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular part, the cockiest sailor in Fancy Free, which had the audience giggling merrily, and as the lovelorn doll in Petrouchka, which had it misty-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Museum | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...made, and made superbly, to win world prestige for the Japanese product. The Impostor was made for the folks back home who have a yen for the movies. The difference is startling. The other three often had the exquisiteness of Hokusai prints brought to life. The Impostor, far more popular at the Japanese ) box office, has the look of a grade A Hollywood costume adventure that was shot with an almond-eyed camera. The story opens in a geisha house, where lies "the bored baron" (Utaemon Ichikawa), the D'Artagnan of Japanese fiction, too bored even to bother with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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