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...every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Bizneylcmd | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

Died. Keyes Winter, 81, boyhood Indianapolis neighbor of Booth Tarkington and model for Penrod, who became a Manhattan lawyer and for 19 years a judge of New York City's municipal court; of a heart attack; in Syosset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Dann, refusing to yield the floor: "No, but I wish some of the directors were [loud laughter]. Oh, I wish I had an isolation booth for you. I'd ask some $64,000 questions, and you wouldn't get the answers beforehand, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle at Chrysler | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...pairs into Chicago for the filming, with guarantees of $1,000 to the winning pair, $500 to the losers ($250 and $500 bonuses for small and grand slams). As Goren and TV Commentator Alex Dreier spin out a running dialogue on the bid and play from a glassed-in booth, the cameras and microphones hover over the table, picking up hands and the players' chitchat. Goren never erases his own predictions from the sound track when he is wrong, or the cardsmen's bad plays when they occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Hands Across the Screen | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Foam & Tears. John Wilkes Booth had turned up in the studio that night carrying a press card, Paar informed the audience. As for the disputed joke, "I only talked to you about a water closet; Walter Winchell would have peeked through the hole and told you who was there." Later he called Winchell lecherous and "a silly old man who could not admit under oath that he writes his own columns," added a few more phrases so barbarous that NBC cut them from the tape-with Paar's assent. (Winchell counterattacked toward week's end, wrote: "St. Paarnard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Return of St. Paarnard | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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