Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually a corporal's guard of regulars formed, including gifted Pianist Jose Melis, suave Announcer Hugh Downs and Singer Betty Johnson, who all served as Paar's foils. The regulars became as familiar as comic-strip characters. Leading characters at present : Genevieve, French singer with a haphazard haircut and accent to match, and an oldtime comedian named Cliff Arquette, with drooping pants and rustic repartee. Despite her sophisticated air, it is naively charming Genevieve who represents innocence on the show and Cliff, despite his cornball appearance, whose trigger-quick ad libs speak for sophistication. But the biggest character...
...cried the Sands' Jack Entratter. But El Rancho Choreographer Barry Ashton retorted: "Bare chests are the thing here-it's what the public wants, and we're giving it to them. It will soon be nothing to see a nude girl. All the showgirls along the Strip will be replaced by nudes...
...created" 29 years ago by Robert C. Dille's father. In 1928 a story entitled Armageddon -2419 was published. The author of it was Phillip Francis Nowlan. Shortly thereafter, John Dille contacted Mr. Nowlan and asked him if he would be willing to have stories syndicated in strip form. Mr. Nowlan agreed, and changed the name of his principal character from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. From then until his death in 1940, Mr. Nowlan was credited with being the creator and author of Buck Rogers, 25th Century. It was drawn by Dick Calkins and syndicated by the John...
...strictly American tone of the place, he planted a befeathered bronze Indian in front of the $500,000 colonnaded building designed by the Manhattan firm of McKim, Mead & White. With Youngstown University near by, the two blocks surrounding the museum soon developed into the cultural strip of the U.S.'s third biggest steel center...
...back and pulled the other fellow down on top of him for protection against the other two men. He reached into his pocket, pulled out his knife, then reached clear around the fellow's neck-and whoosh-cut his head off, so it was hanging only by a strip of skin." Uncle Bob went scot free when a jury found he had knifed in self-defense...