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Word: seltzers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howdy Doody is long on action and short on coherence. Smith, a six-foot 200-pounder, delights his juveniles by chasing, and being chased by, the clown Clarabell, taking pratfalls, and getting squirted in the eye with seltzer water. In his new role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Six-Foot Baby-Sitter | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...have to sink to the level of crime, cliff-hanging and blood & thunder to get a high rating . . . Let me remind you that parents still exist and we must think of the long-range disadvantage of alienating [them]." He was seconded by Miles Laboratories' (Alka-Seltzer) Lester Waddington, who reported that "Parents are beginning to complain that unless there is better programing soon, the babysitter problem will be with them again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anything's Better Than Nothing | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Next year's Nieman Follows will be chosen by two newspaper editors and one Washington columnist in addition to the three permanent members of the selection committee. Columnist Marquis Childs, Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Cleveland Press, and Irving Billiard, editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have accepted appointments to serve on the selection committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Newsmen Chosen to Help Select Niemans | 3/10/1950 | See Source »

Captain Karpe walking forward in the train to the diner. He passed through the crowded Bucharest day coach, sat down at a table with an American student. Karpe complained a bit about his aching leg, drank only a bottle of seltzer water for his meal. Then he left the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Murder on the Express? | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 37, socialite horseman, heir to paternal (railroad) and maternal (Bromo-Seltzer) millions, and second wife Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, 31: their second child, first son. Name: Alfred Gwynne Jr. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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