Word: scatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerry Lewis Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Lewis, whose main virtue since his split with Sidekick Dean Martin has been persistence, tries again, this time with Scat Cat Guest Sammy Davis...
...unfortunately, must also deal with an involved story covering many lives and stretching across many years. Twenty hours of film would not be enough to do Tolstoy justice, and Vidor has less than four. The inevitable result is a telescoping of scenes and a hopscotching through the plot that scat ters attention from one leading character to another. The cast speaks in discordant accents, ranging from Cockney to Italian to Middle European to Middlewestern, and some of the most complex of Toltoy's people can only be hinted at: Dolokhov (Helmut Dantine) is a gutural swashbuckler; the eternal peasant...
...winning question: to identify the first example of "scat" singing (Heebie Jeebies), the recording group (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) and all the players (Armstrong on the cornet, Kid Ory on the trombone, Johnny Dodds on the clarinet, John St. Cyr on the banjo, Mrs. Armstrong at the piano...
...moaned and yelped like the very devil whenever I coughed. I then let them loose. Thereafter, whenever I had to eat off the floor, I would cast a look around. If an animal approached my food, all I had to do was to cough, and how that cat did scat...
...Champaign, Ill., unbeaten Ohio State corralled Illinois' All-America Candidate J. C. Caroline, turned loose their own scat back, Bobby Watkins, and made a bid for the Big Ten championship by outrunning the Illini, 40-7. At Madison, Wis., Alan ("the Horse") Ameche battered the Rice line for two touchdowns as Wisconsin won, 13-7. In Dallas, for all their fumbles, the Oklahoma Sooners beefed up their claim to collegiate football's top rank by beating Texas, 14-7. In the Ivy League, Harvard's Crimson outshaded the Big Red of Cornell in a surprising upset...