Word: actually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one new quiz show was announced, Brains and Brawn, in which intellectual quiz athletes team up with actual musclemen. (After the brains match memories in familiar fashion, the brawnier contestants match skills in athletic derring-do.) An announcer's throbbing voice pledged continued loyalty to Twenty-One. But the irrepressible comics had a field day kidding the quizzes. "When the subject of my new show came up," cracked Bob Hope, "all General Sarnoff said was, 'Never mind if it's funny. Is it honest...
...success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though it be, still has a point; and Rattigan, with a sure ear for dialogue, makes it clearly and movingly...
...showing "where we came from, why we are here, where we are going, and the laws which must be obeyed to attain the celestial degree of glory in the Kingdom of God." From there they move to the drawing-room-style Celestial room No. 2 for contemplation before the actual ceremony of "sealing"-in a small room furnished with pale pink brocaded-satin chairs. In the ceremony called baptism of the dead, believers vicariously baptize their ancestors in the Mormon faith...
...which Marcus is a partner, was reported to have had registered 225,000 shares for its own account and its customers'. The buying had not only sent up the price but had put Marcus and associates in a strong position to squeeze the short sellers, who, knowing the actual value of Artloom from its balance sheet, had sold 35,900 shares of stock short, now had to pay high to cover their sales. (Delighted at the high price, four veteran officials up to last report had unloaded more than 11,000 shares...
...builder last week to straw-boss its 41,000-mile interstate-highway program. In Washington, Federal Highway Administrator Bertram Tallamy chose Ellis Leroy Armstrong, 44, a nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncussing Mormon who heads Utah's Road Commission, to be his "executive vice president" and the man responsible to oversee actual construction. As commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Armstrong not only must pour the concrete, but also smooth the waters as conciliator between the states and the Government on history's biggest public works project...