Word: byington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last three years, returned to the air. The episode was not topflight Lucille Ball but proved good enough to score 46.8 against 15.8 for NBC's Medic. The big surprise of the evening was CBS's December Bride, a run-of-the-mill situation comedy starring Spring Byington. On its first appearance, Bride won a big 31.4 rating, nearly double that of NBC's competing Robert Montgomery Presents...
...Christian Century published an exchange of learned letters last week on the niceties of biblical translating. One contributor, Steven T. Byington, took a stand against the practice, long common in printing the King James version, of italicizing all words not in the original texts. Byington's objection: the unpracticed reader is apt to infer emphasis where no emphasis is intended. For example, he said, take I Kings...
Since neither Byington nor the Christian Century bothered to quote I Kings 13:27, readers rushed to their Bibles. There they read: "And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled...
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). The Happy Journey, with Wanda Hendrix, Spring Byington...
...freshman championships, Dud Autio pinned Gene Mann; Laurie Wilde decisioned Ted Johnson; Sid Tyler pinned Jack Ray; Rock Carroll pinned D. Hawkins; Noel Scullin pinned Al Byington; Jack Rosenthal pinned Tim Nichols; and Bill McCourt decisioned Bernie O'Brien...