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Word: bergen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more. Presumably a couple may win for 20 weeks running and thus get $100 a week for 20 years-a system of payoff that gives lucky contestants a far better income tax break than winning $100,000 outright. Host and question asker will be Edgar Bergen, assisted by such wooden stooges as Charlie McCarthy, Effie Clinker and Mortimer Snerd. CBS is confident that Do You Trust Your Wife? will be right up with The $64,000 Question as an attention-getter. Newsmen who last week watched a Hollywood run-through of the new show feared that CBS might be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $100 a Week for 20 Years | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Probation. In North Bergen, N.J., Superintendent of Schools Walter A. Miller Jr. reported to the board of education that George Scheuermann, 80-year-old chief truant officer, appointed to the post in 1910, has not been showing up for work, concluded soberly: "Our investigation shows that he is not the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Gertrude Berg, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Polly Bergen, Jean Pierre Aumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Lady Chatterley's Lover. The guest list swelled until Lannan's caterers had to send to their Manhattan supplier for more champagne, donated by Madison Square Garden President James Norris and Sports Promoter Art Wirtz. After supper, TV's Bergen ($64,000 Question) Evans auctioned off letters and manuscripts by such literary titans as John Masefield, George Bernard Shaw. Thomas Wolfe, Harry S. Truman. Lannan put up his own copy (published in Florence in a limited 1928 edition) of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In all, Lannan estimated the day's take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Corner in Poetry | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...Shubert, Ralph Meeker and Polly Bergen are starring in a new play, "The Top Man" by Albert Halper. Curtain time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Town | 11/19/1955 | See Source »

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