Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fence Me In. The man who touched off this twin epidemic of hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop...
...market, the U.S. supplies of black dyes were badly strained; a Los Angeles bakery, which had been flubbing along in seventh place among its competitors for years, leaped to the van with gazelle-like ease simply by using Hopalong to promote its Barbara Ann Bread. Every product that adopted his name (at a fat fee to Hoppy) was sucked instantly into the maw of an insatiable demand...
Protests crackled from coast to coast. A Washington Post reader denounced the "vicious" attempt to "blackmail parents into buying a product." The Washington Star editorially conceded that the ad "was in bad taste" and regretted its publication. Cried the Los Angeles Mirror's Columnist Hal Humphrey: "How neurotic...
Clearly, that old bogey the isolationist had gotten no mandate. Much of the confusion stemmed from a misunderstanding of McCarthyism, a made-in-America product fashioned out of wild charges and genuine fears. It could be, and was, used by politicians who wanted to cut the heart out of U.S. policy. But it was also invoked by Republicans whose criticism of the State Department was not that it was doing too much in Europe, but that it had not done enough in Asia. Maryland's John Marshall Butler, who had sensationally defeated McCarthy's archfoe, Millard Tydings, favored...
John Orlando Pastore, 43, stubby (5 ft. 4 in.) son of an Italian tailor and the first Italo-American ever elected to the Senate. A product of the efficient Rhode Island Democratic machine developed by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, cocky but cautious John Pastore succeeded McGrath as governor in 1945 when McGrath became U.S. Solicitor General, is now taking over the Senate seat McGrath gave up last year. He once told a group of foreign editors, "Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union and I am the smallest governor"; conscious of his size and his Italian extraction...