Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, 57, crooning tycoon, and Actress Kathy Grant, 27: their second son, third child (Bing's seventh, including his disaffected brood by the late Dixie Lee); in Los Angeles. Name: Nathaniel Patrick. Weight: 9 lbs., 2½ oz. (Cracked Sidekick Bob Hope, at work with Bing in London on a new Road film: "I'm sure glad it's a big baby. The Crosbys throw back the little ones...
...Russians aimed to sell, the Hong Kong traders probably aimed to buy-although no one could be sure. All Ottawa knew was that the pair-one Liu Liang, a manager for the China Resources Co. who toured Canada in 1958. and a sidekick, Yang Lu-liang-had asked for hurry-up visas last month, and were seldom seen after they arrived all but unnoticed in Montreal aboard a Trans-Canada Airlines plane...
Election Coverage (NBC and CBS from 8:30 p.m., and ABC from 9 p.m.). ABC promises a cast of 1,000, not counting Univac, headed by John Daly. CBS counters with the new IBM 7090 and its sidekick RAMAC 305 to tally ballots "within thousandths of a second," will also use humans, with Walter Cronkite as anchor man. NBC boasts an RCA 501 and a similar 1,000-man task force, commanded by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, needless...
...worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at the edge of the Mexican quarter with the other Earp women-Bessie, wife of Jim Earp, a half brother; Wyatt's wife Mattie; and "Big Nose" Kate Elder, the Kansas prostitute who married an Earp sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie and Mattie got tired of being cooped up while the men were on the town. Once they decided to explore the place themselves, and were promptly picked up. As Allie remembered it: "I ain't goin...
...Lewis and Dean Martin, or Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev-one partner usually gains and the other loses. Last week, as Nikita Khrushchev gallivanted across France with a new team he obviously trusted more (his wife and family), news leaked out of Moscow about his luckless old road-show sidekick, Marshal Bulganin...