Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winters, 33, a roly-poly brainy-zany who has spent most of the past two months as a patient in his favorite subject for humor: the funny farm. While these two once seemed more or less alone in their strange specialty, it is now clear that the virus has spread. Perhaps a dozen other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning up not only in nightclubs but regularly shudder onto the TV screen, and are even invading the record field; Inside Shelley Berman has been near the top of the LP bestseller list for two months...
...bitterness intensified, the Beacon backers accused the Eagle of injecting anti-Semitic lines in its news columns (the Levands are Jewish), while Eagle staffers spread rumors that the Beacon was getting ads by threatening to publish photographs of solid citizens surprised by Beacon photographers in compromising situations. The Eagle wrote balefully of "the threat of Levand influence," went out of its way to talk about "Max Levand of the Wichita Beacon, who owes the Government nearly $10,000 in taxes." When Marcellus Murdock's daughter went East and married a Jew, the Eagle said nothing, but the Beacon told...
...cause that's all the blues is"). But when she is allowed to sing, as in Empty Bed Blues, she belts out some familiar and gutty reflections: "Let me warn you/If you've gotcha some good lovin'/Don't be a fool and go and spread the news...
...Originally a South American infection, the virus of myxomatosis was first used in 1950 to cut down the Australian rabbit population. In 1952 a French pediatrician-out to get the pests who had been nibbling on his estate-imported cultures, inoculated two wild rabbits, started an epidemic that spread rapidly through Europe and Great Britain...
This Is Your Life (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). This time there is no point in sticking to secrecy-better to spread the word and warm up a teen-age audience that the show has never known before. The object of M.C. Ralph Edwards' exasperating attentions: Disk Jockey Dick Clark...