Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal admiration for the demanding job that Bob Boyd does each week is unlimited. I realize, however, that no matter what I write about him he will have the final say : he is the last man on TIME to see this copy before it goes to the printer...
Double Sodas. The original Howdy is a wooden puppet 26 inches tall, who hates guns, dresses like a cowboy, and talks as though his mouth were filled with marbles. His voice and brain are supplied by a fretful, 32-year-old disc jockey named Bob Smith, who conceived Howdy three years ago on a daytime radio show. Transplanted to TV, the puppet flourished so sensationally that, in 1948, Howdy ("The only candidate made completely of wood") claimed more write-in votes for U.S. President-than Henry Wallace. "It's been a hard job," says Smith. "We have to bend...
Howdy Doody is long on action and short on coherence. Smith, a six-foot 200-pounder, delights his juveniles by chasing, and being chased by, the clown Clarabell, taking pratfalls, and getting squirted in the eye with seltzer water. In his new role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba...
...case, the O'Mahoney Committee's majority report-and Bob Taft's proposals-are sure to supply plenty of ammunition for Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, a self-styled trustbuster. Next month, Celler's House judiciary subcommittee will hold still another hearing to see just how heejus the steel monsthers really...
Besides scoring the basket that put the Prexies ahead, Buchanan played a good all-around game, especially under the boards. Forward Al Blackburn was high scorer for Timothy Dwight with 14 points, and Bob Mossman scored eight, mostly on set shots from the corner...