Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doodles Weaver Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBCTV) features a rubber-faced comic addicted to such Ed Wynn mannerisms as puns, hand-flutterings and funny hats. The opening show, interrupted by Milton Berle's 22-hour TV marathon for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and by filmed commercials for Lysol and a deodorant called Etiquet, was a melange of sight gags that didn't quite come off, monologues and studio interviews. Three burlesque comedians and Singer Marion Colby, billed as "the girl with the most beautiful legs in TV," take over when Comedian Weaver's energy begins...
...Houston, the newest Weingarten supermarket had a miniature corral well stocked with comic books to entertain moppets while their mothers shopped...
...just fantastic but hilariously funny, like a movie cartoon of the blind men and the elephant. The comedy is dulled, however, by the fact that his book [Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power -TIME, May 21] will be read by many people . . . and the results will be anything but comic, unless we wish to consider hatred as funny...
...Radio-TV Comic Arthur Godfrey, whose formal higher education consisted of "one short year at Hasbrouck Heights High School" in New Jersey, got an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Rider College in Trenton, N J. Then Dr. Godfrey, who makes close to $1,000,000 a year, gave the students some unorthodox commencement advice: "Don't try to conquer the world. Remember the more you earn, the more you pay in taxes. You can't become wealthy today...
...began studying at the Moody Bible Institute while he was working his way through art school in Chicago. Later he went to Baylor to prepare for the ministry in earnest. His artistic career finally won out; in 1941 he joined the N.E.A. feature syndicate to work on such comic strips as "Boots and Her Buddies" and "Alley Oop." After Army service in Alaska and the Aleutians during the war, he went back to Baylor for his B.A. and began to teach art there. But the ministry was still on his mind...