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Word: tanners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward Everett Tanner III is the Schweppesman of U.S. letters; his books have the sparkle, and he has the beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hairy Jape | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...Chuck Tanner hit his first home run of the season last night to give Milwaukee a 4 to 3 victory over Philadelphia in the 13th inning. Cincinnati defeated Brooklyn, 8 to 1, on a fivehitter by Johnny Klippstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Sox Defeat Yankees For Ninth Straight Victory | 5/23/1957 | See Source »

Holiday Edge. In Jacksonville, Joe Tanner, out under bond on a charge of shooting a man on Christmas Day, was jailed again, charged with stabbing another man on Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Like "his" and "hers" towels in the bathroom, the notion is apt to be a little obvious and excessively cute. But if the reader can keep from getting dizzy turning the book over, he will still have fun, because behind Author "Virginia Rowans" hides the beard of Edward Everett Tanner III, who, under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis, wrote the runaway bestseller, Auntie Mame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: His & Hers | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...boss is the bottom-pinching proprietor of an outfit that manufactures "PulseBeat Eternal Non-Magnetic" watches. Trouble arrives with Besame Bessamer, the boss's stepdaughter, whose pulse beat, particularly when she is near John, is entirely too magnetic. Along the way of his thin plot, Author Tanner looses his most devastating attacks on flossy Manhattan restaurants and nightclubs catering to lovers of bad food, overpriced booze and rotten entertainment-the result being a sort of reverse Duncan Hines guide. Throughout, the fact that John loves Mary, and vice versa, is seldom news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: His & Hers | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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