Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GOGOL (329 pp.)-David Magarshack -Grove Press...
...from the Pentagon, John and Barbara Eisenhower live, by deliberate design, a quiet life. With the customary occasional helping hand from the in-laws, they get along on John's Army pay and allowances (monthly total: roughly $670). There are four youngsters to feed and clothe: rambunctious, outgoing David, 9; lively, pigtailed Barbara Anne, 8; Susan Elaine, 6; and Mary Jean, 20 months. David and his sisters play with the neighborhood children, and Barbara gets out and mows the lawn. Says John: "If David gets into a fight the Secret Service men stay...
...Henry Saloman's Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James Michener will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and David Ben-Gurion. Wide Wide World returns Sundays to alternate with Omnibus, which promises to bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel in a new variety series, Giselle MacKenzie gets her own show, Jill Corey takes the spotlight...
...shrewd combination of Dr. Christian. David Harum and Tugboat Annie, Ma is "the conscience of her community" and trusts folks "till that trust is violated." Soap operaddicts feel that her show is a pleasant extension of the ancient art of storytelling, and offers helpful hints to daily living. Her detractors find it tired bilge, intensifying human frustration in its calculated attempts to bring temporary relief by dredging emotional sewers...
Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion and others once looked forward to a stream of Jews from the U.S. who would pour into Israel to help the unskilled immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa build the new country with their American know-how. But even zealous Zionists in the U.S. tended to send money instead-and many felt that their contributions entitled them to a say in Israel's affairs...