Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lelong. The Bible, says Roman Catholic Father Lelong, is full of wine-there are 443 Biblical references to it, in fact. "Along with bread," he writes, "it is wine that Jesus chose to perpetuate his presence among us. Wine is not an invention of the devil but a gift of our Father, who knows us and loves...
...Producer-Host Robert Montgomery, TV aide-de-camp to President Eisenhower, rang down the curtain on his hour-long NBC dramatic show after a seven-year run. The last play was Faust '57, a disjointed modern treatment of the classic tale about a pact with the Devil-and an ironic choice, since the program had been going to hell all season. The passing of Robert Montgomery Presents is lamentable not only in light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season...
...showed a film on Cambridge life filled with native mud huts and elephants wallowing in water. As a result of all the confusion ("I can't believe," cried Burgomaster Francois van Kinschot, "that the British ambassador would make such fun of me!"), British authorities had the very devil of a time convincing the citizens of Leiden that the Earl of Bessborough, chairman of the organizing committee, was really an earl and that visiting Lecturer Sir Charles Darwin was indeed the genuine grandson of a famed, genuine biologist...
...Devil's Disciple...
...choice of a play this year fell on Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," which had four performances. It is not the best Shaw, but it is the only full-length play he wrote about America and the first of his works to be staged in this country. The play begins as a romantic melodrama, but suddenly turns into a witty farce of lese-majeste in the last...