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...wanna go back whaar I can meet

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINESE POETRY SAMPLER: TOWN LIFE | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...next half-hour he sang his own ditties. Most of his songs gnawed and worried at a popular cliché until it was as grotesque as a Charles Addams cartoon. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie touted the sordid side of the Old South; a Love Song listed the discouraging aspects of senility. For the late show, the Lehrer lyrics got more gory and clinical, with a few interpretive asides by the entertainer (e.g., "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people"). When he finished, the audience happily howled for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Time Out from Thinking | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...backed off the bus, and on came a disheveled-looking off-duty cop. "I wanna help yoush fellowsh," he stammered. "Dose guys is bashtids. I oughta know." He staggered...

Author: By Jack Rosenthai., | Title: The Red Coats Are Coming | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...decided to stake his whole profit on promotion, turned himself into the Madman. His billboards, with their mad legends ("I wanna give them away, but Mrs. Muntz won't let me. She's crazy.") and his singing commercials made his name a California gag. Red Skelton, Bing Crosby and others kidded his commercials, the University of Southern California rooting section spelled out his name at halftime, and soldiers at Santa Ana Camp marched into chow singing "MUNTZ, that's Muntz." And his gross jumped from $150,000 to $1,000,000 a month. Dissatisfied with car design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Dig That Crazy Man | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Yule's hoary harbinger is secreted between the ice-box and negligee department, the small, ominously green sign reads. "You are required to buy pays your money, yen gets no choice a eat in the lap, a flashlight bulb, and "How many prints d'ya want lady?" "I wanna sled," says the kid. "Next," bawls Santa...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Toyland | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

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