Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World Music Festivals (Sun. 1:05 p.m., CBS). Musical recordings from Bergen, Norway...
...Bergen (June 1-15): the home town of Composer Edvard Grieg stages its second celebration. Emphasis on Grieg and other Scandinavian composers by a cast that includes such celebrities as Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Pianist Clifford Curzon...
Kraft Television Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy cavort in Alice in Wonderland...
Comedians were flown in from Hollywood and Florida to do two-and three-minute introductions of the different numbers. Jack Benny had an uneven skit about his troubles in buying a ticket to a Rodgers & Hammerstein hit; Edgar Bergen made only the sketchiest effort at being a ventriloquist in a pair of episodes with Charlie McCarthy and Ed Sullivan; Groucho Marx got the best laughs as a quizmaster cutting Rodgers & Hammerstein down to size...
...head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who served a nine-month federal penitentiary stretch in 1949-50 for padding his Congressional payroll and taking kickbacks, was homesick for the Capitol. He said that he is "thinking about the possibility" of running for Congress again. In strongly Republican Bergen County, where many onetime Thomas constituents are still convinced that J. Parnell was framed by vengeful leftists, the possibility did not seem outlandish...