Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sahara crowd were coming around, not to laugh but to learn more about the Crosby clan's squabbles. Gary, the boss of the troupe, made sure no one was disappointed. "My father and I," he told a reporter, "just don't get along any more. Dad did some things last Christmas that I felt were far from right...
...growls Gary after one close-harmony number, "that's pretty good for four boys trying to get ahead without the old man's money." After another effort, Mack the Knife, Gary remembers Bing again: "That's the most applause we've had since we told Dad we were leaving home." With a surprisingly pleasant, well-paced melange of songs, soft-shoe dances and slick patter, the Crosby boys manage to suggest that they intend to keep right on working until they have an act worthy of the Crosby name...
...other show, the script might have spelled disaster. There was the ambitious momma, dead set on getting daughter into show business-but with enough maternal instinct left over to mother a stray coyote, a spinster tourist and a Mexican wetback with a guitar. There was also the expected, easygoing dad, a navy officer son-in-law sore at momma's machinations, and a happy ending. But somehow, on the U.S. Steel Hour (CBS) last week, the thin substance of The Pink Burro stiffened into a commendable show...
...shows) on TV, the Steel Hour (produced by the Theatre Guild) has pulled the same trick more often than its competitors like to remember. And more often than not, its secret has been good actors, live performances. Last week it was June Havoc as Momma, Edward Andrews as Dad, and Jane Withers as Momma's sister, who put a lively kick into Pink Burro. In the past, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes and Julie Harris handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search for a new formula. Even...
Remembering the 30 years of battle and good-sized fortune that my mother and dad put in trying to demolish the ghetto, I experience a deep personal pain. It is true that that fight won our people some new and decent housing in Chicago, but I cannot forget that it also won my father's death and my mother's current punishment by people who apparently want the property and not repairs...