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Word: whiteman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Whiteman Varieties (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC). New hour-long variety show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...medieval western," offers deadpan Alan Ladd as a knight on the town. ¶ Saskatchewan (Alan Ladd) and The Far Country (James Stewart) take place in Canada and Alaska, are called "northern westerns" by Universal-International. ¶ War Clouds (United Artists) is notable for a sequence in which the whiteman hero (Rory Calhoun), armed with bow & arrow, fights it out with a gun-toting Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Crowded Prairie | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

George Jessel Salutes (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC). A new variety show with Paul Whiteman's orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...University, but when he found out as a pre-law student that he could make as much as any beginning lawyer in town by singing and tooting a kazoo, he quit school and headed for Los Angeles to break into full-time show business. There, two years later, "Pops" Whiteman auditioned his act, and signed Bing and his partner Al Rinker into the big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathroom Baritone Inc. | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Whiteman added Harry Barris to Bing and Al, called them The Rhythm Boys and featured them on tour. Says Bing: "We laid them out in sections-we fractured them." Bing adds that he also fractured himself with too much booze, too little work, and too many unlikely companions. He woke up after one binge in a mobster hideout with police machine guns playing chopsticks on the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathroom Baritone Inc. | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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