Word: catbird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television has been digging away at the antic works of Humorist James Thurber ever since the 1949 production of The Catbird Seat. Last week TV served up two hour-long helpings of Thurber. The Robert Montgomery Presents adaptation of The Greatest Man in the World was almost a complete failure, but on the Motorola TV Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC), Director Donald Richardson struck pure gold in his version of Thurber's fairy story, The Thirteen Clocks, set to music by Mark Bucci...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). James Thurber's The Catbird Seat...
...Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...