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Word: withe (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 »

Some stars play along with the racket because crack writers are tough to come by, must be pampered. According to Hollywood folklore, Jack Benny once used a quick series of five plugs which furnished the home of a writer who was about to get married. But a writer often has...

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

¶ Art Carney, as the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (NBC). "Nothing should stand out about this guy," said Carney about his role, and he may have carried a good judgment too far, was sometimes too emotionless compared to the rest of the cast, directed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Top of the Week | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Still to be completed, among other projects, are the marble interior of the shrine, eleven chapels which will project from the outside of the building, and some 20 altars within. Catholics will have contributed more than $30 million by the time the shrine is completed ($18 million has been raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: U.S. Catholic Shrine | 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 »

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