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Word: cbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large in his baggy traje de luces. When Palance was not glooming about the bulls and that other, more ferocious enemy-the crowd-he was busy swilling expensive hooch ("We'd pay through the nose for this," he says) or displaying a sweaty torso effectively scarred by the CBS makeup department. He also lapsed into some totally unrelated pseudo-Hemingway moods with high-priced ($120 an hour) Fashion Model Suzy Parker, a sort of un-simpática Brett Ashley. (Suzy: Was it good today? Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Northwestern University, wrote the book with his like-minded sister, Cornelia Evans, 56, a writing consultant to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Their book has the same zestful flair that turned Bergen Evans into a national TV personality as the earnest, rapid-talking moderator of CBS's The Last Word (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ED UCATI O N: How Educated People Speak | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...some 250 pinched broadcasters, including all the major networks, formed a rival organization, BMI, and the two have been skirmishing ever since. The point currently at issue: Does the broadcasters' control of BMI and large interest in the recording industry (NBC is related to RCA Victor, CBS owns Columbia) lead to discrimination against ASCAP tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Voice & Payola | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Back in Manhattan, hard-driving Arlene hit pay dirt with a radio show called What's My Name?, which gave her the reputation of saying, as she does on CBS's What's My Line?, anything that pops into her heart-shaped head. Once she blurted, "Oh my God," then broke the studio's stunned silence with: "Oh my God, I can't say 'Oh my God' over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Perils of Arlene | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...Omnibus, which promises to bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel in a new variety series, Giselle MacKenzie gets her own show, Jill Corey takes the spotlight on Your Hit Parade. In addition to his Tegular CBS chores, Alfred Hitchcock will produce and direct ten films for NBC's Suspicion; Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis return with six specials each; and Dean Martin plans to alternate with Polly Bergen. General Motors celebrates its 50th anniversary with Jubilee of American Music, and Standard Oil will hire Cyril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The New Shows | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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