Word: showering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit's Pfeiffer Beer, only team ever to win three championships (1952, '53, '55), lit up the Coliseum with their brown and yellow uniforms. The Budweiser team drove down from St. Louis in a flashy, $250,000 bus, complete with galley, six bunks, a bathroom with shower, and a private compartment for Budweiser's August Anheuser Busch Jr. In the individual competitions were all bowling's big names and, to TV fans, familiar faces. Chief among them was Lou Campi, Dumont, N.J. contractor whose awkward, wrong-foot bowling style has made him the Lucille Ball...
...course of this thoroughly distasteful affair, the spectator gets hardly a whiff of the shower-room sociology that permeated the book. He does learn a bit about what goes on inside a sadist-mostly, in this case, repressed homosexuality. Most of all, he gets a handsome introduction to two of Hollywood's most promising young men: Director Jack Garfein, 26, and Actor Ben Gazzara, 26, two products of Manhattan's Actors' Studio, who make their film debut with this picture. Garfein has directed the film more deftly than he staged the play on Broadway; he shows...
...Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Jack Benny plays host to Tallulah' Ed Wynn, Julie London and Tommy Sands...
Clearly calypso is the biggest thing in the pop-music business since rock 'n' roll started rolling, but why is something of a mystery. Few people can "dance calypso" (there is no formal style) or sing it in the shower. In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was sung extemporaneously, first by plantation workers and later by semiprofessionals with such exotic names as the Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor. The lyrics might relate some back-fence gossip, reflect on the paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros...
...Said he in the Trib: "Texas is turning green . . . like some beautiful, bewildering mirage . . . The reaction to the President's drought-study tour was friendly . . . but the comment was cautious . . . And then the rains came-days on end of drizzle and fog, with now and then a brisk shower. The term 'Eisenshower' was coined . . . The month of February 1957 will go down in history as the time of many Eisenshowers...