Word: cox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teeth, with Mary Martin, Helen Hayes, George Abbott; a musical version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with Frank Sinatra and Eva Marie Saint; Jerome Kern's The Cat and the Fiddle; Dearest Enemy, with a Rodgers and Hart score; a musical based on Heidi with Wally Cox and Jeannie Carson; Patrice Munsel in The Great Waltz; and Maurice Chevalier in a variety show. Straight drama also will get the 90-minute treatment from NBC. José Ferrer will put on putty for another re-creation of Cyrano de Bergerac. Eva La Gallienne will star again in Alice...
...gilded gambling resort in Las Vegas, shy, poker-faced TV Comic Wally (Mr. Peepers) Cox was dealt out of an 11,000-a-week hand for the second time in less than a fortnight (TIME, July 25). Reason: he again failed to draw a full house. After first firing Cox because his act, a medley of warmed-over Peeperisms, left the patrons cold, the Dunes Hotel rehired him three days later on his promise that he would whip up a scintillating potpourri of brand-new Peeperisms. But on his second chance, Funnyman Cox chiefly tried for laughs in a masochistic...
After three shows of his scheduled four-week, $44,000 nightclub engagement at Las Vegas plush Dunes Hotel, TV Comedian Wally (Mr. Peepers) Cox was fired on grounds that he had promised to supply an entirely new act but had come to Las Vegas with no preparation and with material five or six years old. The act had so much "nothing," according to Co-Owner Al Gottesman, that "people walked out in the middle of it." When Cox turned up for a fourth show despite his dismissal, the management refused to let him go on, offered...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Meanest Man in the World, starring Wally Cox and Josephine Hull, opens a new series...
...Reece Committee was not the first to look into the operations of tax-exempt foundations. In the 82d congress the Cox Committee questioned the heads of the major foundations and concluded that they were making good use of their favorable position...