Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Escape of Mendès-France, shown on CBS's Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.), was a dramatization of how the obscure Frenchman who was to become Premier escaped from his French fascist captors during the German occupation in 1940-41. As a true story, it is exciting; as fiction, it is a cliché. The hero is arrested, falsely accused and unjustly condemned to six years in prison, escapes by tying his bed sheets together and climbing down them. The climax of the show was ruined in a large part of the country by a transmission foul...
...Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Escape of Mendès-France, a dramatization of true-life adventure of the former French Premier, starring Louis Jourdan...
...Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Wild Stallion, adapted from William Faulkner's short story, Knight's Gambit, starring Paul Henreid, Mary Astor, Evelyn Keyes...
...Offense. The laying on of hands is the climax. The halt, the lame and the blind file up, or are pushed or carried, before Roberts one by one. He prays for each one, sometimes seizing a head and wriggling it vigorously or pumping an arthritic arm up and down. "I ask the Lord to deliver our sister here from sugar in her blood," he cries. "Heavenly Lord, take the head noises away from this woman." Last week outside Harrisburg, Pa., an emaciated youth afflicted by polio and epilepsy rose unsteadily from his pallet after Roberts touched him on the first...
...Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Dance by F. Scott Fitzgerald, starring Janet Blair, Vanessa Brown, Ethel Waters...