Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from mild mugging to baggy-pants clowning, have dethroned such veteran TV headliners as Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey. One of the first to see the handwriting on the TV screen was Funnyman Red Skelton, himself risen to TV's top ten. Last February, when he got the award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as the top comic of the year, Skelton walked to the microphone and said flatly: "I don't deserve this. It should go to Lucille Ball...
Desilu Productions hired a pair of veteran troupers, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, to play the family next door and serve as foils and friends for Desi and Lucille. Academy Award-winning Karl (The Good Earth) Freund supervises the three cameras, and Director Marc Daniels (soon to be replaced by Bill Asher) gives Lucy its rattling pace. The writers-Jess Oppenheimer, Bill Carroll and Madalyn Pugh-turn out scripts that do not impose too much on the audience's credulity and are reasonably free of cliches. The writers are held in an esteem not common in TV. Lucille bombards...
Also at the dinner, Lindy Waltkins, number seven man on the varsity boat, was awarded the Henry Herbert Haines Trophy as the man who best exemplifies the spirit of the 150-lb, crew. This is the second year the award has been presented...
...number of award winners, 14, marks a new high for the tennis team, under the H.A.A. rules requiring participation in half the matches. Barnaby tried to schedule as many 15-match contests this year as possible in order to give more men a chance to play...
...Rittenberg received the McLaughlin Memorial Award for the freshman most closely resembling the line character exemplified by James McLaughlin...