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...unsponsored quiz program devoted to brain teasers ("There are two windows, each four feet from top to bottom, and four feet across-why does one give twice as much light as the other?").* On the opening show, M. C. Doug Browning and his panel of experts (Actors Nina Foch and Charles Korvin, ex-Governor Hoffman of New Jersey, Producer Hi Brown) ended up in nearly as much confusion as the TV audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). Icebound, with Nina Foch, Edmond O'Brien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Apr. 16, 1951 | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Theater of Romance, however, will only occasionally reflect the deep-thinking side of Faith Baldwin. For the next show she has promised something more in line with commercial reality: the story of a glamorous, beautiful Broadway actress (Nina Foch) who is ardently wooed and eventually won by a wealthy young man from Park Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Rosy View | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Died. Mme. Julie Bienvenue Foch, 90, widow of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Allied Generalissimo in 1918; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper led with her chin, bravely recorded the result: "When I wrote that I didn't understand why Louis Calhern and Nina Foch wanted to do King Lear on Broadway," she reported, "I got the following note from James T. Burns Jr. of Columbia University: 'The reason artists like Calhern and Foch choose to star in Lear instead of staying in California to portray defunct cattle barons and brilliantined cuties is approximately the same reason a gifted writer would prefer to become a Wolcott Gibbs instead of a Hedda Hopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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