Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Franklin Goucher had the meager salary of a Methodist minister to live on, but the girl he had decided to marry happened to be rich. "Young man," her father demanded, "do you want to marry my daughter for her money?" "No, sir," replied Goucher, "but I certainly could find...
...matter how much money they made, they seemed to spend less & less. They never painted their house, never allowed any-repairs. Fannie kept their money tied up in little packages which she hid around the house. When she died in 1930, it took Charley quite a while to find...
Berle is not universally admired. His detractors find his brassiness glaring, his lines lackluster and his talent often tasteless. They point out that television is still in its infancy and declare that Berle just happens to be the man who is taking candy from the baby. Nonetheless, the Berle show's New York Hooperating stands at 80-the highest of any regular TV or radio program-and his audience in the 24 cities that see him "live" or on kinescope film two weeks later is reliably estimated...
Once spanked by a Chicago critic for his "gabby scoopings into the gutter," Berle has been startled, touched and filled with a sense of responsibility to find that he has a sudden popularity among children TViewers. Fellow vaudevillians who once resented him now hail him as a savior of the two-a-day. Once such a professional stray that he has never been acceptable to Broadway's Lambs Club, he will be honored this week by a $50-a-plate testimonial dinner (Thurs. 10:20 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) for contributing to interfaith understanding (he has played benefits...
Good Samaritan. Some of his best performances in nightclubs, which the new, more refined Berle professes to find too "smoky and noisy" for his taste, have been put on free, while Milton was a customer. Visiting a Philadelphia spot during the war after a hard day's work, he went on the floor at 3:30 a.m. and played until 6 to two customers, a janitor and some sleepy waiters. Recently, when Gypsy Rose Lee walked out on a club date at the last minute, Berle stepped in and put on a two-hour show. Last year, when...