Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium was really only kidding. It wanted to show the public what was known about journeys into space; trips to the moon were no longer comic-book fantasies, said the planetarium, but a definite possibility-perhaps before the century is out. Tongue in cheek, the planetarium began taking reservations and faithfully promised to turn them over to the first interplanetary travel agency, when...
...equivalent of 18 million in the U.S.) heard Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; more than 7,000,000 listened for eight nights to a series of talks on atomic energy; Comedian Wilfred Pickles has an audience of 12-14 million, relatively far more than that of any U.S. comic...
Publisher Hecht has had only one resounding flop. Nine years ago, in an effort to stem the tide of blood & thunder comic books ("I won't publish stuff like that"), he brought out True Comics to tell the stories of great men and great deeds. True Comics made a poor showing against its hardboiled, blood-spilling brethren, and Hecht recently dropped it. In Children's Digest, he hopes to put over the idea in a slightly different way. Said hopeful Parent Hecht: "We think we can build the Digest...
Four Star Revue (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). Comic Danny Thomas...
...Edmund Goulding's direction and Edmund Gwenn's superb acting, is to give the picture's closing episodes the winning quality of Miracle on 34th Street. Like Miracle, in which Actor Gwenn played a put-upon Santa Claus, Mister 880 works up the surefire comic-sentimental appeal of pompous authority melting in the warmth of an ingenuous little man of good will...