Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple monologues in Chicago nightclubs. Then he made some of the better-known TV shows (Ed Sullivan, Hoagy Carmichael) as a guest comic. He was the big splash last month on David 0. Selznick's four-network TV show Diamond Jubilee of Light (TIME, Nov. 8), delivering a deadpan talk on electronic brains that probably set science back three centuries...
...face, ballyhooed as an "offbeat, low-pressure Wally Cox-Will Rogers type," was crewcut George Gobel (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Straining at a deadpan, Midwestern delivery ("Wai, I'll be a dirty bird"), Gobel was better at dialogue than monologue. The show's two sketches were unpretentious, underplayed and very funny...
...Clem Attlee as gullible as he seems? It is hard to tell from his curious, deadpan way of writing and speaking. His sentences frequently end on a tentative note, as if the point will come in the next paragraph. He can be bafflingly bland. Sample (from his autobiographical account of his first trip to Moscow in 1936): "Unfortunately, my visit preceded by a few weeks the big purges, which removed a number of [the leading men] I had contacted, notably Marshal Tukhachevski." Attlee could walk with Dante through hell and emerge remarking that "different people had different tastes...
Died. Gerhard A. Puff, 40, German-born bank robber who made the FBI's Top Ten in 1952; of electrocution; in Sing Sing. Sentenced to the chair for killing an FBIman in a 1952 Manhattan gun fight, deadpan Gunman Puff ordered two of the most sumptuous "last meals" in Sing Sing history, had been visited by no one in his 14 months, 23 days in the death house...
...Deadpan Horrors. The pieces range from straight reporting to short stories, from personal reminiscences to literary criticism, with a sprinkling of poetry. Close to one-fourth of the book is taken up with unsparing accounts of World War II. Expertly written-if by now rather familiar-are the deadpan horrors of Alan Moorehead's graphic Belsen and the explosive shock of a Sunday-morning air raid in London as described by William Sansom in Building Alive. Often, Horizon's writers add a reflective dimension to war reporting possible only to men who have known a country before...