Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than half its length, the play was up to the idea. Seventeen years after a nuclear holocaust, the last hope of propagating the race lies in the-only two teen-agers of eight survivors on a California hilltop. After bickering through childhood like brother and sister, the boy (John Kerr) and the girl (surprisingly well played by Piper Laurie) are pressed, balking and shying, into marriage. The wedding preparations and the reluctant, ingenuous courtship are imaginatively scripted. Sample...
Studio One (Mon.10p.m., CBS). The Five-Dollar Bill, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy as sorely tried parents of a rebellious young boy...
...born before divorce proceedings were completed against her husband, the late Playboy Philip M. Plant, who was Mrs. Rovensky's son by her first marriage and the adopted son of her second husband, Railroad and Shipping Financier Morton F. Plant. But because Miss Bennett said nothing about the boy until after the divorce proceedings were final, for years claimed that he was adopted. Mrs. Rovensky never officially recognized him as her grandson...
...more remarkable because her column often reads like a parody of other lovelornists. In fact, San Franciscans at first thought that Abby even concocted her own letters as a deliberate takeoff. One letter to the Chronicle that is still quoted with glee came from a girl who confessed: "My boy friend took me out on my 21st birthday and wanted to show me a very special good time. I usually don't go in much for drinking, but I had three martinis. During dinner we split a bottle of wine. After dinner we had two brandies...
...when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays 25? into $10,000. That calls for a celebration. Surrounded by a tableful of beauties, the unspoiled boy raises a glass of champagne and cries: "Bottoms up!" Then, "Oh," he quickly apologizes, "I forgot there were ladies present...