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...Without a Star (Universal). "Did yew say INSAHD the haouse?" Kirk Douglas, a new hand on the Triangle spread, is plumb dumfounded. "Wah," he gasps, "it hain't har'ly deesint." A little later he says to his pard he says, "Did yew heah whut thet maan said? INSAHD the haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right...
Joaquin Miller's mother claimed that he had been born in a manger, but Joaquin himself always stoutly maintained that it was in "a covered wagon, pointed West." Both had escaped the fact: Joaquin (pronounced Wah-Keen) was actually, born in bed on a farm near Liberty, Ind. in 1837, and never climbed aboard a covered wagon till he was a strapping six-footer of 14. Nonetheless, it was a strangely modest yarn for Miller, who spent a lifetime stretching the truth about himself until it snapped. Famed on two continents at the turn of the century...
They wrote "Wah-Hoo-Wah" on the Nike...
Name Dropper. In El Paso, after applying for U.S. citizenship, Ng Wah Yee changed his name to Chan...
...seeded, top-ranking Kentucky lost (67-56) to its first tournament opponent, a husky Loyola University (of Chicago) team that had not even been seeded. The fans had the unusual sight of a veteran team losing its poise. Two of Kentucky's three all-Americas (Alex Groza and Wah Wah Jones) left the game on fouls; only little Ralph Beard played up to his press clippings...