Word: dinah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Live TV has that little element of human fallibility," Singer Dinah Shore once said. "If you make a mistake, you can use that old ham bone and capitalize on it." Last week Dinah almost got knocked off-camera by a playful poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest...
Palms thrusting trustingly toward the audience, her head cocked confidently in song, Dinah gives emotional urgency to the tritest lyric; she seems still much the cheerleader she once was at Vanderbilt University (class of '38, sociology major), yet also in tune with life at 40. Last week her velveteen vibrato caressed the lyrics of Sentimental Journey and I'll Be Seeing You, and as she backed offscreen, her sign-off kiss floated out individually, so it seemed, to each of her 40 million or so viewers. A veteran of 444 quarter-hour shows and 14 full-hour revues...
...column in Munich, appearing in the tabloid Abendzeitung, is written in breezy English by Gordon Francis Feehan, 38, a New England-born Irishman. Under the pen name of Frank Gordon, Feehan turns out his slangy, spangled Munich-Go-Round, that looks as startlingly Arnerican in its German context as Dinah Shore would among the Rhinemaidens...
...Under no condition will I testify until I'm well enough," and Ed Wynn goggled on-screen to explain why his girl is so fastidious: "Her father's fast, her mother hideous." The U.N. debated aggression in Korea. An A-bomb exploded at Yucca Flat. There were Dinah, Perry, Howdy Doody and Bishop Sheen, and Lawyer Joseph Welch quietly flaying the late Senator McCarthy: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." Milton Berle, the granddaddy of TV comics, came out of retirement to give the Infant its best moments. Shorn...
...afterglow of the success of last year's Perry Como and Dinah Shore shows, the TV networks are taking a high shine to popular singers in jumbo productions. In fact, the TV season threatens to be, in the phrase of one critic, a case of "the bland leading the bland." TV's Pepsi-Cola girl, Polly Bergen, got mired down in embarrassingly labored exchanges with a shrill, scenery-chewing "panel" of other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color...