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Word: whats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many comedians are prolific brand-name droppers. Gagged Bob Hope recently: "The NBC peacock is really a plucked pigeon with a Clairol rinse." Jerry Lewis punched out a joke with the tag line, "Look, Mom, no cavities!"-which happens to be a slogan of Crest toothpaste. Steve Allen built a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Block That Schlock | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Everybody's Doing It. The plug system is so well organized that there are lists setting out which firms pay what-and it would not be possible if U.S. business did not eagerly go along. Many a performer jokes about the practice. Arthur Godfrey slipped in a mention of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Block That Schlock | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Giovanni (Decameron] Boccaccio, whose medieval priests seemed seldom far from a girl or a glass, would have been surprised at what happened to the Rev. Lino Gussoni in Rome last week. Born and raised in Italy but a longtime U.S. citizen. Father Gussoni. 39, was on leave from a welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Priest on Via Veneto | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

U.S. informality gives priests plenty of leeway in where they go and what they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Priest on Via Veneto | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Last week Bhengu was busy in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Whites jam-packed Salisbury's Methodist Hall to hear him tell them, in precise English, what was wrong with white Christianity: "The greatest dangers in Africa today are Communism and Islam. Both offer the African equality. The churches are divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Billy Graham | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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