Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their rather touching desire to make the customers happy, Mr. Abbott and the authors have found a niche in their operations for the well-known strip-teaser Sherry Britton. Though Miss Briton displays an agreeably athletic navel in some belly-dancing sequences, her presence in the cast is the final proof that the proprietors of this enterprise are not austerely high-minded. But a good low-minded farce has delights all its own, and Drink to Me Only may turn into a winner...
Choreographer Ashton says all the show girls along the Las Vegas Strip will be "replaced by nudes." I don't think the human body was meant to be used as a form of such amusement or entertainment...
...tattoo continues, familiar information floods the C. of C.: Milton Caniff is a cartoonist who draws a comic strip about Steve Canyon, a tall, blond, slightly stuffy Air Force aviator. Steve and his buddies will be portrayed in a new show on NBC television this fall. Best of all (boomlay, boomlay, boom) there is a local tie-in: Miss Columbia Mizzou, raffish blonde who shows up intermittently in the strip, is named after the University of Missouri, near which, in Caniff's fable, she once slung hash...
Main Street in tiny Boyd, Texas (pop. 550) is two-lane, string-straight, smooth-paved-and ideal as a drag strip for the rambunctious local hot-rodders, who went roaring through town at night, leaving empty beer cans and angry citizens in their wild wake. Finally, in October 1956, Boyd decided to stop the hot-rodders by hiring cops for the first time. By last week, plainly convinced that the cure was worse than the disease, Boyd was a town full of cop haters...
...McEvoy, 63, writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach ulcer from each...