Word: showmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides being the greatest football coach of his day, Rockne was a chemistry prof and a keen student of human emotions. He was also one of the greatest showmen since P. T. Barnum. With names like Madigan, McMullan, Murphy and Moynihan in his lineup, he dressed his men in Kelly green (the colors of Notre Dame are blue & gold) and they became famous as the Fighting Irish...
...lyrics-from All Alone right up to the new You Keep Coming Back Like a Song-are as sweetly foolish and affecting as young love itself. The only real trouble with this big, pretty song & dance is the tedious plot it is hung on. Crosby and Astaire, seasoned enough showmen to know that nothing is really required of them except their standard suave recitals, treat the story to the offhand snubbing it deserves. But for 104 minutes it keeps coming back like a musicomedy plot...
Rose, who likes to pose as a lovable little gaffer, runs plugs for some of his rival saloonkeepers' shows, admires other space-grabbers ("One of the great showmen of all time is a kindly, pickle-faced fight promoter named Mike Jacobs . . . rates with Barnum, Ziegfeld and Roxy") or endorses the free entertainment of watching Manhattan's public markets and Broadway's fancydancing billboards. He advises customers not to tip his waiters too much, warns "If you are looking for naked tootsies, the Horseshoe is not your cup of tea" (but slyly suggests that the girls are more...
More than any other group at Harvard, the Pudding boys are showmen. "Proof of the Pudding" is done with informal verve, but with professional style...
...Showmen Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, who was quite a showman himself in his earlier air-race days, braved the hazards of an Olsen & Johnson show in Chicago, did all right...