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...sister, and no father and no bot sosstle, but not crib, and I get up and sit up and says 'Howowow?' and he says 'Telephone?' " There is, after all, a character described in Lonesome Traveler. It is Kerouac, full of wonder, wind and wow - as always, his own best invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On & On, the Road | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...Wow!- "the most unpopular man Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Moving through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Pro | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Caught in his shorts by a Swedish photographer, portly Jazzman Louis Armstrong, his anger largely mock, responded with a Marquess of Queensberry pose most likely to invite a snappy right cross. Later, somewhat more warmly garbed, Satchmo grabbed horn and handkerchief, strutted from his dressing room to wow 3,000 cats in frosty (45° below zero), far-off Umea (pop. 17,000) with a rafter-ringing set of fine old stomping tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...spoof people, Bil has generally used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bairds on the Wing | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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