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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were Dinah, Perry, Howdy Doody and Bishop Sheen, and Lawyer Joseph Welch quietly flaying the late Senator McCarthy: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." Milton Berle, the granddaddy of TV comics, came out of retirement to give the Infant its best moments. Shorn of his gag-machine brassiness, Berle strolled through his old studio, recalling warmly, yet a little wearily, how "back there at the beginning, TV was a great opportunity for anybody who was hammy enough to say 'Here...
Tuesday is fun-and-games day in the nation's 41 million TV parlors, with no fewer than eleven quiz shows in about as many hours. Best of the big batch is a witty, unpretentious panel quiz on CBS called To Tell the Truth (9 p.m., E.S.T.), which came to television almost a year ago from the well-stocked cupboard of Goodson-Todman,* purveyors of What's My Line...
...rascal-he is perfectly placed for the goofy badinage, studied insolences, posh billingsgate and pecks that leave tooth marks which are Coward's forte. And when, sporting a New Look, he is very suavely going through all the old motions, he-and the play-are at their best. When he gets down to words, matters are less exhilarating. Using foreign words -jabbering in French, German, Russian, Yiddish, gibberish-he is fun the first five or six times. But using English words-though there are happy Coward glints and phrasings and intonations-he seems to be neither the hilarious...
...fellow men." Progoff notes that the author of The Cloud seems to have had considerable harassment from extraverts; he advised his readers to pay no attention to such carping and reminded them of Martha's irritation with contemplative Mary, who, said Jesus, had "chosen the best part...
Spain's ironworkers are artisans beyond compare, and Spanish architects have known full well how to use their best craftsmen. When Philip II commanded Architect Juan Herrera to build the Cathedral of Valladolid in 1585, Herrera designed it to include a lofty screen, or reja, 45 ft. high and 47 ft. wide, that would span the width of the cathedral between the choir and the altar. Work on the wrought-iron grille .was begun about 1668; the gilding was not completed until 1764. In 1920, when the church rearranged the choir, the huge grille was removed...