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Word: townes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister to visit the U.S. or be received by a President, brought, his wife to meet the Eisenhowers, but left his attractive daughter Mercedes, 20, at National Airport to await them. Informed that Mercedes was miffed, Ike gallantly declared that he too was miffed, had an aide hurry across town to fetch an excited Mercedes back for a special interview in his office. Ike asked how she liked American boys. Answered Mercedes: "They're very friendly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Miffed Miss | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...work of a generally talented cast, greatly aided by director Stephen Aaron and musical director Howard Brown. What it lacks in polish, it almost always makes up for in vigor. Backed up by the sumptuous settings and lighting of Webster Lithgow and Jordan Jelks, the actors really go to town--especially in the ladies department...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: The Golden Apple | 4/27/1956 | See Source »

Died. "Little Jack" Little, 55, radio star of the '30s, and composer (A Shanty in Old Shanty Town, Jealous, Hold Me); apparently after an overdose of sleeping pills; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Picnic. William Inge's play about a husky athlete (William Holden) who bounces around a small town like a loose ball, while the ladies (Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak) fumble excitedly for possession (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Delegates from the University's two Young Democratic clubs and other college and town groups touched off a heated controversy by their proposed platform provisions on civil rights at the organization's biennial state convention in Boston last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Democrats Stir Dispute on Civil Rights | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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