Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free as a Breeze. City Slicker Gay, whose 200-man rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze...
...Slicker Service. To boost profits to pay for such expansion-and compete with bigger lines-Continental plans plush service all the way. Beginning April 28, the twice-daily Chicago-Denver-Los Angeles DC-7B flights (one way: $76, plus food and drinks) will be the first regular all-coach service operated with the same trimmings as first-class service...
...Abby's replies are slicker, quicker and flipper, but Ann comes up with an occasional Eppiegram. To the worried young man who asked, "How can I keep my hair?" she suggested: "You could keep it in a cigar box or just throw it away like everybody else...
...Midwestern Hayride (Wed. 10:30 p.m.), which consists of fancy Dans caterwauling heart-rending laments and pretty cowgirls yodeling morosely as they pluck at guitars. The show turns around Master of Ceremonies Willie Thall, a part-time hillbilly from Chicago, who talks corny on mike, but is a city slicker...
...Hampshire, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver stopped over in Boston, ran into ugly weather, donned a slicker and sou'wester that made it a hard choice as to whether he most resembled Captain Ahab or the Uneeda Biscuit boy. In New Hampshire, Kefauver cried: "I'm here to win." Later he explained: "I want to be President of the U.S. because I have great ambitions for our country." In the same spirit, he refused to pose for photographers in his familiar coonskin cap, saying that he has reluctantly scrapped it as his political symbol because "some...