Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armstrong Circle Theater: This CBS regular has grappled with a series of difficult subjects, e.g., the Dead Sea Scrolls, and produced a series of earnest failures. Last week Armstrong deftly dodged the main issue of a most unlikely topic and pulled off one of the best shows of its season. The subject: The New Class, the anti-Communist political tract by Recanting Red Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav long beleaguered and now in prison for turning on the party and Dictator Tito. Armstrong's program-saving trick was to ignore the dialectic of the book, concentrate instead on the spectacle...
...actor Lanza shows in this picture considerable improvement. He remembers almost all his lines, and he gives some imitations (of Perry Como, Frankie Laine, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong) that could easily have been worse. He seems to enjoy the jokes they have assigned to him ("You're Italian?" "No. Only on my father's and mother's side"), and he generally plays as though he thought the story-something about an American crooner who gets stranded in Rome-rather interesting. The scenery, as a matter of fact, is fascinating. At one point, while the camera takes...
...Armstrong Circle Theater: When the Brooklyn Museum started clearing out its west wing storeroom a year and a half ago, Dr. John Cooney, curator of Egyptian art, decided that a 1,600-year-old mummy of undistinguished pedigree had to go. First he suggested burning it, but a museum technician objected, as a Roman Catholic, to destroying a human body. Next Dr. Cooney tried to bury the mummy, and found that he could get no city burial permit. Then he tried to ship it out of town to a small museum, only to be turned down by Railway Express...
...moment as serene and majestic as Nefertiti, and the next as disorganized and disheveled as a college girl at exam time. Her villa regularly swarms with visiting girls and women; when Aisha entertains, its marble walls ring with female giggles and pop tunes (some Aisha favorites: Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong) like a U.S. girls' dormitory. Aisha has abandoned the slacks and blue jeans which once raised orthodox eyebrows in pre-independence Morocco, but still favors slim-cut black skirts with sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints her fingernails and toenails to match, wears her thick...
...Devere Armstrong, head of the AROTC unit, denied that any pressure had been exerted. "As commissioned officers," he said, "cadets will be expected to join officers' clubs. We feel that the Caisson Club is a form of training for this side of military life. Anyone who joins ROTC is the recipient of many advantages paid for by the government, and accepts therewith a moral obligation to support his unit. However, I have not myself participated in any pressure on any cadet--as far as I'm concerned there is no pressure...