Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back to a busy doctor and his restless wife. The happiest ending of all was provided by Revlon cosmetics, which gave a 28-year-old U.S. Marine captain a check...
...eventually we would meet . . . Boxing is a profession that is as beautiful as it is brutal. It can be as beautiful as an opera. You can see a man's thoughts, and over those 15 rounds first it's the introduction and eventually it's the climax...
...While Climax was showing how much funnier Mark Twain is between the covers of a book than on a TV screen, CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.) was showing how much wittier Playwright J. B. Priestley is on the stage. The TV adaptation of Laburnum Grove, under the title Counterfeit, came around slowly to Priestley's engaging idea. A kindly English mediocrity (Boris Karloff) wants nothing more in the world than to live a quiet life in a London suburb, devoting his spare time to raising tomatoes. But since he is incapable of earning...
...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Huckleberry Finn, with Thomas Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson...
...evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing but chewing-gum wrappers. The three ex-G.I.s are unwittingly shanghaied as substitutes for the crackpot, and from there on, Fair Weather breezes on to a stormy climax-a brawl between the good fellows and the bad fight fixers, in full view of 60 million televiewers...