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Word: scarecrow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alas, once a straw man always a straw man. The onetime scarecrow of The Wizard of Oz meets an advertising mogul played by Fritz Weaver with Mephistophelean glee. Stan, as the love-smitten dean of women (Eileen Herlie) calls him, becomes a be-spatted decoy for the "Fodorski Foundation." At sea in adland. poor rich Stan is eventually faced with a moral question: Should he throw the big game to save his academic integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Wheeze-Bang | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Looking as gaunt as a secondhand scarecrow, Husband Eddie Fisher flew back from a TV performance in Lisbon and hurried to his sick wife's bedside. Actor Richard Burton-who plays Mark Antony in the picture-flew in from Paris, where he had been moonlighting in a minor part in The Longest Day. Meanwhile, rumors flew every which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Uneasy Lies the Head . . . | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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