Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Launched by a Milanese comic-book publishing house after World War II, the first fumetto magazine, Grand Hotel, was simply a serialized cartoon romance. In 1947 a competitive firm substituted live models, posed them before a camera, and the fumetti art form was fixed...
...fascinated viewer of This Is Your Life has often had the fond dream that the treacle might some day explode in gladsome Ralph Edwards' face. In the dream the couch of honor is occupied by someone like Mary Pickford's former hairdresser, and Edwards, clutching the Book, tremulously introduces a long-lost loved one. At this point (in the dream) the honored party looks up and cries: "Why, it's my first husband. I hate the sight of him. Get that heel out of here...
...Redhead (book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw; music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Miss Fields) puts musicomedy's million-dollar baby Gwen Verdon in a five-and-ten-cent storehouse of old theatrical gewgaws. The proof of her impishly awesome talent is not that she stops the show, which she does, but that she starts it-and sometimes startles it-into an amusing show of life...
...witty chorus number called The Uncle Sam Rag, parodying a sedately British version of U.S. ragtime. As Essie's muscular true love, Richard Kiley is good in voice and virile in manner. The lackluster score sounds like eight notes in search of a composer, and the book should be returned to the moths from which it was borrowed. But Redhead's flaws are not in its star...
...alarm that the Soviet schools are in some ways very good indeed. More strident cries rise from home-based critics, who demand that the U.S. get into the education race without delay. A more thoughtful reporting job is offered in The Big Red Schoolhouse (Doubleday; $3.95), a new book by Fred M. Hechinger, who helped write the Rockefeller report on U.S. education, The Pursuit of Excellence (TIME, July...