Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio station offers coloring books as a tie-in promotion for sponsors. Cousin Brucie ("I really believe everyone's my cousin") Morrow, 31, top rock jockey for Manhattan's WABC, has formed a "Cousin Brucie's Pillow Talk Club" for the station's 20,000 sub-teen listeners who go beddie-bye with their transistor radios. "They're my little itty-bitty ones," drools Brucie. "Kids used to go to bed with teddy bears," he says. "Now they go to bed with...
...brothers Jeff, 10, and Fritz, 9-honed their gritty style singing for coins on the beach at Venice, Calif., recently landed a recording and five-picture contract with Warner Bros. They are already TV veterans, are now shooting their first film Methuselah Jones, the saga of a sub-teen preacher who sings all his sermons...
...care how close I get as long as I don't get too big. In the North, they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." Despite the disappearance of the old ethnic comedy, though, some sub rosa jokes still thrive, on the assumption that only a really minor minority lacks the strength to fight or picket. The current favorite is the Polish joke, which ranges from harmless slap to unpleasant slur: Q. Why are there so few Polish suicides? A. It's not easy to get killed...
...last week's International Diamond Trophy races, sub-zero temperatures had turned the Mount Van Hoevenberg course so hard and slick that the sleds' runners would not bite into the ice, tended to slip sideways on the turns. Conditions were particularly bad at the 13th and 14th turns-known as the Zig-Zag -where a wooden superstructure was installed to keep the careening sleds from shooting right over the banking. As the four-man competition got under way, a U.S. sled overturned at the Zig-Zag, injuring two of the crew. At that, the wife of the next...
...duke, professor and poet, Rexroth functioned magnificently in the sub-worlds of Chicago, Greenwich Village and the syndicalist meeting halls of Seattle, until he came at last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers...