Word: aversion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television, according to broadcasters, is intrinsically educational. It broadens young minds and uplifts old ones. Last week a plausible footnote to this plausible theory came from English Instructor Ralph S. Graber of Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College. TV may open all sorts of vistas, Graber reports, but the quality of...
Alias Jesse James (Hope Enterprises; United Artists), for moviegoers who have almost given up Hope, is a pleasant surprise: a Bob Hope farce that is actually funny, and sometimes downright hilarious. Comic Hope is cast as "the world's worst insurance agent," a 19th century nincompoop who caps his...
"I'm Going to Jump!" Driving his Buick south on Avers Avenue, Salesman Elmer Barkhaus, 61, glanced at the school, saw smoke coming out of the back door. Before he could get out of the car, flames were shooting out of the school. At 2:42 he gave the...
Compared to the tired cheeriness of many disk jockeys, Shepherd's offbeat humor is refreshing. Much of his talk is pure doubletalk, but some is shrewd, if cockeyed, comment from an educated comic (B.A., Maryland U.; M.A. in psychology, Indiana). The greatest thing America has to fear, he avers...
Delicacy or Violence. Mastermind of Matinee is volatile, grey-eyed Albert McCleery, 44, an ex-paratrooper who runs his big assembly-line operation as if he were a field marshal. From his studio in a converted Hollywood drugstore, McCleery shuttles from one rehearsal to the next (five go on at...