Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When diffident Wally Cox and demure Patricia Benoit were joined last week in TV matrimony* before millions of their entranced fans on Mr. Peepers (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC), the happy event stirred up the most excitement since the arrival last year of Lucille Ball's TV baby. According to Trendex researchers, the Peepers' nuptials drew a bigger audience than the competing CBS Jack Benny Show, which ordinarily outscores it in the ratings...
Thus far, Mr. Peepers has concentrated on the minor problems of a high-school science teacher, played to awkward, heart-warming perfection by Wally Cox, who has spent as much time with eccentric friends and co-workers as he has on his sexless courtship of School Nurse Benoit. But even in television, things are bound to be different after a man gets married...
...thing, Cox and his writers may find it nearly impossible to discover a comedy situation that has not already been fully explored and endlessly developed by rival husband & wife teams. The big-family family field is monopolized by Mamma, Life with Father and The Goldbergs. The young parents' division (both urban and suburban) is covered by Make Room for Daddy and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Cox and Actress Benoit can never hope to equal the eager smooching of Barry Nelson and Joan Caulfield (My Favorite Husband), the pratfalls of Joan Davis and Jim Backus (I Married Joan...
These initial charges in the Reece Committee's preliminary report were issued before the group had heard representatives from any of the major foundations, and they are radically different from the conclusions of the Cox Committee of 1952. This earlier committee, after long investigations, had observed that the officers of the major charitable trusts recognized their public obligations, and noted that only a few of the countrys three thousand foundation were under subversive influence...
Danger Signals. Businessmen in a score of fields reported that the slide has stopped. U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless announced to his stockholders that "an upturn in demand is beginning to appear." In the copper industry, which has recently been trimming production. Kennecott Copper President Charles R. Cox also reported a turnabout; his company will increase the work week from five to six days at four western mines. And a special committee of the Government's Business Advisory Council reported that the business decline has leveled...