Word: bulldog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staring in Disbelief." Such sponsor neglect incenses Susskind, a toy bulldog of a man who hardly minds biting the hand that hesitates to feed him. At every chance, he sneers at the "ocean of mediocrity" brought on by "panic buying" of quiz games and westerns. He insists that advertisers are deluded, says that viewers "are staring in stark disbelief and disinterest, and I hazard the guess that their pocketbooks are zipped...
...clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom, sent him up the matinee-idol trail (Lady Windermere's Fan, Romola, Stella Dallas) that culminated in Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest...
Yale has ben defeated by Harvard for the past two years running in epee. This year, however, the epee match will probably be closely fought. Yale lost to Princeton in that weapon 6-3, and the Tigers shut out the Crimson, 9-0. Henry Powell, top Bulldog epee man, is the most serious threat to the Harvard squad...
...Bulldog Buchwald...
Thank you for the hilarious Dec. 30 article, "Summit Simmer." May I suggest that Art Buchwald of the Herald Tribune take over as White House Press Secretary? At least he has a sense of humor, something totally lacking in Ike's little bulldog...