Word: costello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, but of a restrained sort. Pinero, though he does have most of the cast hiding under tables at one point, at least does not stoop to custard pies. The Victorians needed to relax at a farce now and then, but they would never have cared for Abbott and Costello...
...last week the radio and television corps in Korea had grown to a platoon of 25 men, including such experienced hands as CBS's Ed Murrow and Bill Costello. Many of the later arrivals came armed with twelve-pound Minitape recorders, transcribed their stories on the spot and flew the tape to Tokyo for broadcast to the U.S. Along with such eyewitness accounts, the networks were also distilling, from their own sources, and from the regular news services, enough material for nearly 300 newscasts each week...
...target of Bridges' wrath was CBS Newscaster Bill Costello, who last week broadcast the news that the 2nd Infantry Division was landing at Pusan while soldiers were still hitting the beach. But if any help had been given the enemy, the fault was not Costello's alone. He had picked up his information from a United Press dispatch, was ahead of the newspapers only because his morning broadcast beat early afternoon editions...
...Sundowners (Eagle-Lion) is a better-than-routine Technicolored western. Its chief claim to note: it gives his first movie role to John Barrymore Jr., 17, son of the late Great Profile and silent screen beauty Dolores Costello. In a minor part as Jeff Cloud, kid brother of Hero Tom Cloud (Robert Sterling), young John plays with restraint and frequently bears a striking likeness, both in full-face and profile, to his famous father. But his features are too finely chiseled and his acting too low-keyed for all the blood & thunder that goes on in The Sundowners...
...Costello was not the only big shot who pooh-poohed the idea that bookies could be reached by law. The committee heard the same line from St. Louis' bland, bankerish James J. Carroll, the Mr. Big of betting, who announces winter book odds on the Kentucky Derby, and "lays off" (in effect, reinsures) all kinds of bets with gamblers across the nation. When he was asked what a bookie needed to operate, beyond the racing wire, he answered with one word: "Money...