Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopped stomping, clogging and jigging (redeye is still optional), has become a forceful matter of sliding steps and intricate patterns. Dancers came from as far away as Germany and Great Britain, and from 46 U.S. states, most of them young married couples or spry middle-aged folk. Most impressive proof that square dancers are not square but hip: George ("Pop") Singer, who last week was energetically chassezing right and allemanding left...
Bill Bailey ought to know. Born in 1886, the son of a patent-medicine hawker, he learned song-and-dance routines to help sell the family product: Bailey's Gypsy Liniment. At 120-proof, the stuff worked like magic. Later, in vaudeville, Bill hoofed up with a singer named Dave Hodges, who changed his name to Barnum so the pair could work their way around the country as Bailey & Barnum. They were a sort of circus minimus until a Manhattan impresario gave them a five-minute spot in Fred and Adele Astaire's Lady, Be Good. The playbill...
...Capone (Burrows-Ackerman; Allied Artists) is amusing proof of the old saw that each generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...manner in which the Communists pressed for more power showed that they did not have it yet. At week's end Iraq celebrated the first May Day parade in its history, and the many thousands of Iraqis marching through Baghdad behind anti-imperialist banners was chilling proof of that mob might. But the night before, Kassem made a brief speech saying that he is opposed to political-party activity in Iraq just now-and not ready to take Communists formally into his Cabinet...
...Auto-Lite. They also went to Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 89, only living daughter of Crane's founder, explained that Evans' chief argument with Crane President Neele E. Stearns was over Stearns's slowness in expanding the firm's inadequate network of independent wholesalers. Proof of Evans' complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share v. 21? last year), which did not show the strong comeback from the recession of Crane's chief competitors. Mrs. Chadbourne decided to back Evans and Landa with her 120,759 shares, and they agreed...