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...Doodles Weaver Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBCTV) features a rubber-faced comic addicted to such Ed Wynn mannerisms as puns, hand-flutterings and funny hats. The opening show, interrupted by Milton Berle's 22-hour TV marathon for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and by filmed commercials for Lysol and a deodorant called Etiquet, was a melange of sight gags that didn't quite come off, monologues and studio interviews. Three burlesque comedians and Singer Marion Colby, billed as "the girl with the most beautiful legs in TV," take over when Comedian Weaver's energy begins...
...present the French cancer society with a $10,000 check from the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, Good-Will Ambassador Sugar Ray Robinson lost his way in Paris traffic, kept the crowd (including at least one duchess and the wives of three cabinet ministers) waiting 30 minutes before he arrived in his fuchsia Cadillac convertible. All was forgiven when the middleweight champ from Harlem made a little speech in French, then topped it off with: "Hey, now I get to kiss Missus President!" With a gay blush, France's First Lady, Mme. Vincent Auriol, stood up for a kiss...
...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
...Miami, Walter Winchell announced his new super-award plan for the best work in the fields of theater, screen, literature, radio and television. Title: the "Annual Damon Runyon Awards." First member of the board of judges so far named: Bernard Baruch...
...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of race track touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...