Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back in Hollywood, Debbie Reynolds hopefully reached for the last word. Said she: "I'm sure you're all exhausted by this topic as much...
...Phil Silvers' sponsors (Reynolds Tobacco, Schick Razor) no longer agree. Lately, the Bilko episodes have become more strained, more cluttered with guest stars. With no one to pick up the tab, CBS last week gave Ernie Bilko his discharge. Next season Phil Silvers will surely be back on TV -but in civvies...
...ground-bound, button-pushing missilemen. Today these heroes are still the crinkle-eyed young men wearing silver wings, the plane jockeys who earn their day's pay at a high scream-somewhere around the speed of sound. Their quick, death-weighted decisions would scare a six-gun cowpoke back into the saloon, and the wonder is that their work is still a rarity on television. But last week televiewers had their fill of flying-in both fact and fiction. And even when Air Force technical advisers were looking the other way, neither overexcited writers nor overemotional actors could corn...
...volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from her identical twin sister. She is still alive and seemingly well. Though her hair fell out, it is growing back...
...Prodigal Son Caen decided to return (for $38,000 a year), leaving the Examiner (circ. 257,251) with little humor to perk up its somber pages. "The day I knew we had come around the corner," says Publisher Thieriot, "is the day Herb Caen decided to come back." Looking over his figures for 1958, Thieriot had good evidence that he, Newhall and Caen, and a fired-up city-room staff had done a good job of boosting the Chronicle: in a recession year, the paper gained 1,248,313 lines in advertising, soared 31,029 in circulation to reach...