Word: burros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spinster tourist and a Mexican wetback with a guitar. There was also the expected, easygoing dad, a navy officer son-in-law sore at momma's machinations, and a happy ending. But somehow, on the U.S. Steel Hour (CBS) last week, the thin substance of The Pink Burro stiffened into a commendable show...
...trick more often than its competitors like to remember. And more often than not, its secret has been good actors, live performances. Last week it was June Havoc as Momma, Edward Andrews as Dad, and Jane Withers as Momma's sister, who put a lively kick into Pink Burro. In the past, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes and Julie Harris handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search for a new formula. Even in the summer, when other shows are sneaking by with reruns, the Steel Hour will remain live...
...tumblers because few readers had ever heard the name. Editorial researchers scrambled, learned that Poet Jiménez was known from Aragon to Argentina as a kind of melancholy, Andalusian A. A. Milne, particularly for Platero y Yo,* a collection of prose vignettes spoken by the poet to his burro about life and death in a Spanish town (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957). At the outbreak of civil war, Jiménez and his Vassar-educated wife (translator of Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore) left Spain, lived thereafter in the U.S., Cuba and Puerto Rico, where she died three days after...
G.O.P. officials proudly announced that burro-voiced Tunesmith Irving Berlin will personally bray a ditty of his at their San Francisco convention. Title of Composer Berlin's official convention song: Four More Years...
...trim little Albert Schweitzer Hospital opened its doors and went to work. It has 50 beds, three air-conditioned operating rooms and an "emergency entrance" designed with an eye to the fact that the only ambulance available to most of the region's poor is the Haitian burro. Water and outdoor cooking facilities are provided for outpatients coming down from the hills. Present staff consists of four doctors and a lab technician in addition to the Mellons, and all have been studying Creole in preparation for their patients. Patients are expected to pay only what they can−token...