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Word: skeltons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more scalps dangled from CBS' belt this week when NBC's Red Skelton signed with the younger network. In an earlier foray CBS's William S. Paley, operating as a one man task force, captured ABC's Bing Crosby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rather Casual | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...dangling the juicy bait of tax savings before other NBC stars, soon made off with Jack Benny. Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Phil Harris, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Red Skelton were reported planning to join the exodus to CBS. This week the tax collector cut the gossip short. He had bad news for radio stars who would like to revise contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Laughing Matter | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Capp himself is more of a writer than an illustrator. Like most comics, his strips are stories with standard scenes and characters, and liberal slices of cheesecake on the side. But the profusion of bit parts in Capp's cast-Lonesome Polecat, Fearless Fosdick, Stubborn J. Tolliver and Skelton McCloset the murdering musician-are unforgettably pictured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strippers | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Skelton, Cass Daley, Virginia Mayo. The orchestra is largely recruited from the St. Louis Symphony, and the producers, directors and designers are professionals from Broadway and Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: St. Louis Habit | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...average take: $70 a week) depends on their own initiative. Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was coughed up. Unlike the Fuller Brush man hero in the current Red Skelton film, no Fuller dealer has ever been suspected of murder, and despite legend, his erotic adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fuller's Fillies | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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