Word: twain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mark Twain Tonight! The reports of Mark Twain's death have been greatly exaggerated. The great humorist is delightfully alive as a platform lecturer of 70. The brilliant lookalike: Actor Hal Hoi-brook...
...Mark Twain Tonight! The reports of Mark Twain's death have been greatly exaggerated. The great humorist is delightfully alive as a platform lecturer of 70. The brilliant lookalike: Actor Hal Holbrook...
From Hannibal to Space. Inventor Lear's restlessness hit early. Born in Hannibal, Mo., Mark Twain's home town, he enlisted in the Navy at 16, was made a radio instructor at the Great Lakes Training Station. He learned so much that, discharged at 18, he soon opened his own radio consulting and manufacturing firm. Among his early jobs: designing a special coil that made possible the first practical commercial auto radio. He learned to fly, and in 1930 opened an aviation-electronics business that turned out the first practical light-plane radio. After World War II, Lear...
...Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook, 34, makes Samuel Clemens, 70, live again for two hours in a brilliant and delightful display of recaptured Americana...
...Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. A memorable profile of Sam Clemens...