Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than in the primary. Shiniest Republican statewide hopeful: Newcomer William B. Bantz, 40, burly, personable former U.S. district attorney from Spokane, his party's nominee to unhorse Democrat Senator Henry M. Jackson. Big Bill campaigned hard for regulation of labor unions ("My stand on labor bosses is damn popular"), polled 136,000 votes, about 100,000 more than anyone expected him to get, set starved Washington Republicans hollering, that Bill Bantz was their white hope for the future. But it looks like a distant future: "Scoop" Jackson, running against admittedly feeble party competition, took every county, grossed...
...These popular two ballads by themselves made Service rich. In successive books-Ballads of a Cheechako, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Lyrics of a Low Brow -he paid repeated respects to his own talents as a versifier and an avid public's eagerness to read manly far northern rhymes such as these...
...thought, belonged to Tacoma (Wash.) Baritone Roald Reitan, who sang briefly last year with the San Francisco Opera. Ohio-born Tenor Jean Deis, who was told when he was nine that scarlet fever would prevent him from ever speaking again, also got a generous round as Rodolfo. The most popular Americans were Texas Soprano Sara Rhodes Hageman, 25, whose Mimi Italians found "delicious," and Manhattan Showgirl-Soprano Marjorie Smith, who was in Most Happy Fella and is now being pursued by Italian film makers...
...night-crawler colony of summer artists numbers upwards of a hundred, living in various degrees of leisure from sublet Fresh Pond homes to park benches and sleeping bags. Its members have a particularly difficult lot: the coffee-houses and cafes are closed; the Brattle shows nothing but popular films; the banks of the Charles are too crowded for contemplation. And the bare bones of sustenance itself present a problem...
...statistics are revealing. The most popular courses in terms of enrollment were American Literature Since 1920, Aspects of the Impressionistic Novel, Modern Poetry, and European Intellectual History of the 19th Century, in that order. This subject-matter sounds less than esoteric for a good normal school...