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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expensive Sabotage? Whatever hopes anyone might have had about Bette Davis on television film were headed for a crackup when she appeared in Crack-Up on the 20th Century-Fox Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). For two acts of a dreary version of a 1952 film by Writer Nunnally Johnson, Bette did not even appear, as the dialogue driveled on between drama ("We belong together; I know we do") and comedy ("It's raining cats and dogs; I just stepped in a poodle"). When she finally did appear as a bedridden sage spouting inspirational cliches, she was as stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Botswick, the Forum members said, asked Bridges not to appear under the auspices of the Forum. "Anyone would get clobbered before the Forum by liberals asking loaded questions," Botswick explained. In November, Thomson said that if Bricker appeared before the Forum, he would find the clubs "stacked greatly against...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Political Clubs Accuse Thomson of Meddling | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

...preconception. To create a hero or to pit man against fate in the world of familiar experience is next to impossible, for the modern reader has long taken for granted the scientific proposition that man makes his own history, no matter how far from his hopes it may appear...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Lord of the Rings | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

...beautiful girls." The following year bubble dancer Sally Rand, amid a barrage of pennies, spoke on "How to be Intelligent though Educated." In addition to Miss Rand the Smoker Committee presented Frank Buck, the human giant Jack Earle, and Felix Adler, the world famous clown. President Conant did not appear...

Author: By Harvey J. Wachtel, | Title: Where There Is Smoke | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

...Bandeira's "friend," with an acute feeling for the quiet sadness which the role demands. Gregory Lafayette skillfully keeps the rather intense college student from becoming annoying. The production also gains much from the direction of Edward Thommen, who shows real talent in making the theater's tiny stage appear uncluttered...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Bandeirantes | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

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