Word: clown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliberating on the state of the U.S.. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith has been seen on Edward R. Murrow's television program as she traipsed around the globe-e.g., to Formosa, India, Spain. A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman...
...normal crowd would have cheered the teams, for the game was well played, but instead, when it became evident that the Globetrotters would have to fight to stay in the game rather than clown around as they do when they are ahead, the crowd began to hiss, clap hands rhythmically and in general show their disapproval of the game...
...avoiding it--the Globetrotters looked like the second-best team; if this continues throughout their long trip it may mean the end of the road for the colorful Negroes. For the word is going to circulate that the Globetrotters have to play basketball, and that they don't clown any more. When this happens, the only people interested in seeing the Globetrotters are going to be basketball fans, and these fans would rather see the Boston Celtics...
General Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Henry Fonda in The Clown...
...Carefree Clown. In the New York game La Salle's Coach Loeffler was determined to keep Hot Rod from repeating that kind of performance. In the second period calmed-down Loeffler ordered his team to switch to a zone defense. It was the first time a single opponent had ever forced Loeffler's hand, but it was a wise move. Hot Rod and his Mountaineers were slowed to a walk; Gola and La Salle ran off with the game...