Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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About 1,000 times a week over 20 stations throughout the country, these sentiments are sung by a character called Gaston, whose recorded outbursts are sponsored by Chateau Martin wine. Few jingles have made such an impact on the U. S. Variations on Gaston's theme are popular in nightclubs, his antics have formed the background of several skits, and his slogan "I am NUTS about the good old Oo Ess Ay" is incessantly echoed among the nation's small...
Sirs: Napoleon, I believe, was the originator of decorations for conspicuous bravery in battle*-the medal being the most popular form of recognition. An A. E. F. General...
...order of nuns whose vows are not perpetual, she was presently released, married another prisoner who had been sentenced for a previous attempt on Obregon. A priest, Father Jose Jimenez, also serving a term, for complicity in the Obregon murder, performed the ceremony. Fortnight ago, the pressure of popular opinion and the hard work of her previously released husband induced new President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who wants to be friends with the Church, to commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells and the Mexican press broke into congratulatory headlines, Seiiora Castro Balda walked out through...
...year's heap of good books and bad, some 50 were outstanding. Some of these emerged because they were popular, some because they were soundly researched or written, a few because they may endure. The list...
Whizzing around a pole (cable racing) is still the most popular form of miniature-auto racing, mainly because it can be managed on any gymnasium, floor or hard tennis court. But the spindizzies who gathered last week in Los Angeles' $3,500 Miniature Speedway were newfangled rail-racing enthusiasts, competing in the first miniature rail-racing championship of the U. S. In rail-racing, far more exciting to watch, cars usually race in threes (against time) around a banked wooden oval, one-sixteenth of a mile in circumference. They cling to the oval's steel rails by means...