Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 33, in a Manhattan hospital after "corrective surgery," presumably aimed at readying her for long-delayed motherhood; Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 59, bedded in Spoleto, Italy with pneumonia aggravated by "chronic emphysema" (overstretched lung tissues) ; Presidential Press Secretary James
Barrymore"), he prepped vaguely for his mother's perfume business at Columbia University, spent more time on Broadway than Morningside Heights. Even before college he was radio's first Jack Armstrong, the Ail-American Boy (salary: $125); as a sophomore he wangled a part in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The infinite difficulties of teaching a deaf child to talk are explored in Zone of Silence...
...Lena Home seem to be naturals for Porgy, if not for Sam Goldwyn, and their failure to do better on RCA Victor's album is chiefly due to their efforts to force a mood without really making the material into anything their own. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, on the other hand, tilt into the lyrics on a new two-LP Verve album with an infectious grace as easy as a ramble through the high cotton. The combination of Armstrong's gravel throat and Ella's honey-clear voice in Bess, You Is My Woman Now makes...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m. )." A semidocumentary about dope addiction...