Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for Sergeants follows a classic pattern of rube-conquers-all, but it follows it less for satiric than for outright comic ends. Will is not just the simpleton who confounds the sages; he is also the good boy who can lick all the bad ones, the farm boy who can drink city slickers under the table. With everything soundly proceeding at a comic-strip level, No Time for Sergeants becomes a fine, boisterous exercise in sustained improbability, in morning-fresh outrageousness. It has a kind of healthy, folkish madness: it makes the Air Force seem like something personally invented...
...Sheep Has Five Legs. French Comic Fernandel, who is much too funny for one man, plays six. He is too funny for six men, too (TIME, Sept...
Since the departure of Wally Cox, George Gobel is the shyest comic left on television. Gobel ended last season No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings, but his opening program did not have the look of a winner as Gobel traded arch repartee with a fluttery actress pretending to be his mother, endlessly rubbed noses with plump Singer Peggy King, and finally salvaged some shreds of comedy from an interview with Actor Fred MacMurray. Gobel this year may have a rival in CBS's Johnny Carson, another minor-keyed comic who can extract a remarkable amount of amusement from such...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TIME...
...known to staffers as "The Twins") have fathered three other successful publications. The trio: glossy, authoritative Connaissance des Arts, the most widely read art magazine in France (circ. 46,500); Benjamin, the only "serious" children's weekly in France (where parents also complain about comic books), with a circulation of 80,000; Entreprise, France's only business magazine. The semimonthly Entreprise (circ. 40,000) was stymied at first by the traditional secretiveness of the French businessman. But in 2½ years it has succeeded in proving that the business community can benefit from alert, informed reporting on business...