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...long enough to falsify it. Montalban's anxieties are magically dispelled by a happy ending as familiar as Boxing Promoter Lionel Barrymore 's grumpiness. Though Right Cross's ring scenes are pretty well staged, it is a boxing picture with too much yatata and not enough sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Although we respect our new coach's enthusiasm in suggesting "sock it to 'om," as the moral booster for the school and the team, we feel that the above is a much more realistic approach to the problem. David G. Black '53 Mark L. Goodman '53 Robert Rosenman '53 John Stadler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheerless Cheerleaders | 10/17/1950 | See Source »

...bright young people from current Broadway shows, Cantor looked as durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher than CBS's competing Toast of the Town, long a runner-up to TV's perennial No. 1 attraction, Milton Berle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rotating Comics | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Rock 'em and sock 'em!" That is the newest byword on Soldiers Field, a carry-over from Coach Lloyd Jordan's days at Pittsburgh. It can often he heard when the team comes out of its huddle, and it is an expression that will probably come in for a good deal of use around the Stadium this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sock 'em" is Latest Football Cry | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...Beiderbecke gathered around to hear Jelly's style ("Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm"), he was "all in diamonds." As his wife Mabel Bertrand recalls: "His watch was circled in diamonds. His belt buckle was in gold and studded with diamonds. He even had sock-supporters of solid gold set with diamonds. Then you could see that big half-carat diamond sparkling in his teeth . . ." When he was riding high, he toured the country in a big Lincoln limousine, picking up $1,500 in an evening with his band, the Red Hot Peppers. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mister Jelly Roll | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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