Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarence Day Sr. outdid Jeeter Lester -or would this week, when Lindsay & Grouse's Life with Father gave its 3,183rd consecutive Broadway performance, one more than Tobacco Road's previous world record. For the occasion, co-author Howard Lindsay and wife Dorothy Stickney, the original Father & Mother, agreed to resume their roles for a one-night stand. The demand for tickets was so great that they decided to extend their stand to two weeks. Also for the occasion, the play's pressagents compiled some statistics...
...almost sure to span the summer: Oklahoma!, Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, State of the Union, Born Yesterday, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, All My Sons, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Sweethearts, Burlesque-and Life with Father, which next week will beat Tobacco Road's record (3,182 performances)for the longest run in Broadway history...
...born in 1824 of a line of Aberdeenshire Calvinists. His father, a hard-tender, humorous man, reared his son with Presbyterian rigor-forbidding him to use a saddle until he had mastered riding bareback, advising him "to give over the fruitless game of poetry," exacting his promise to renounce tobacco at the age of 23. After graduating from King's College at Aberdeen, George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future state of probation for heathens, and that...
...pictures of which Zhukov approves: The Best Years of Our Lives and Tobacco Road ("a progressive film about the plight of the American farmer...
William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 77, a limber-tongued front-page regular when he was Oklahoma's tobacco-stained Governor in the early '30s, got some publicity after a long drought. He broke into the New York Times twice: 1) when the paper referred to him as "the late 'Alfalfa Bill'"; 2) when it had to correct itself, admit that he was still alive & kicking...