Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vishnevsky was dutifully applauded. But he had irritated many Germans from the Western zones who cast about, among the handful of Anglo-U.S. observers and reporters, for someone to answer him. They settled on 27-year-old Melvin J. Lasky, able U.S. correspondent for the New Leader and Partisan Review, who sat up all night preparing his rebuttal, delivered it next day in excellent German...
Steppat took a plaster cast of the famous skull and laid down cork to the exact thickness called for at all 15 points. Then he connected the points with Plasticine. The result: an average face of Tepexpan Man. Said Steppat: "If the finished reconstruction doesn't look like the Tepexpan Man, it looks like his first cousin...
...gaudy sport togs. In Irma's infancy, Sy handled everything, from the first line of script to the last directorial cue. Nowadays, he leaves much of the writing to scripters. But he still rules the show with a firm hand. "I'm an egomaniac," he says. "The cast hates me, but better they should hate me and give a good show than love me and we're off the air." For conventional radio comedy he has only a sneer: "Anybody with the price of a joke-book can write a gag, but only the best can write...
Hard to Believe. Irma's characterizations are cut to the measure of the cast. Every one of the actors looks and acts his part in & out of the script. Most astonishing of all is Irma herself, Cinemactress Marie Wilson, who has been playing the role of a dumb blonde for so long that she now lives the part. Marie's fluffs at rehearsals and on the air are daffier than anything a scripter might imagine. "She is so much like Irma," says Sy, "that I have to rewrite the things she says to make them believable...
...center position provides the biggest question mark in Saturday's Soldiers Field struggle. With regular Chuck Glynn's forearm in a cast, his play definitely will be limited. Substitutes Don Stone and Steve Howe, who have seen only limited action so far this year, will be called upon to share the bulk of the action...