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...Perry Como is so relaxed that he sometimes gives the impression of being made of sponge rubber with a core of Seconal. His eye is soft, his movements languid, his voice soothing. He views the world as being peopled exclusively by "nice guys." Once he applied that label to a famed middleweight boxer he had met. A friend pointed out that the pug had recently gone to jail for kicking his pregnant wife in the abdomen. Perry looked momentarily unhappy, then suggested: "Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A World of Nice Guys | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Real Nothing." Naturally, he is distressed that his high-rated Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC) is clobbering its CBS rivals, Jackie Gleason's Stage Show and The Honeymooners. Gleason is not only a nice guy but a good friend of Perry's. In the latest Nielsen Top Ten, the Como show is No. 7 and Gleason is nowhere in sight. Says Perry: "I'd rather go on at 2 o'clock in the morning when there's no trouble. I don't want to fight anybody." On the air, Perry sings four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A World of Nice Guys | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

where he was born Pierino Como, the seventh son of a seventh son. Just about every show he does, the writers come up with a great idea for a barbershop scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A World of Nice Guys | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Gertrude Berg, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Polly Bergen, Jean Pierre Aumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Tunc, como doctor, ille se faceva coolie pro cinquanta annos...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Interlingua: A Universal Language? | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

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