Word: frawley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snatch the ball-point-pen leadership from Frawley Chemical & Engineering's Paper-Mate, Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. is bringing out a new, lighter and better-balanced model for $1. Though competition is still fierce, ball-point penmakers have recovered from their recent slump. Last year's ball-point sales: 45 million, v. a mere 28 million conventional fountain pens...
Stars in the Air (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). The Babe Ruth Story, with Ward Bond, William Frawley...
Desilu Productions hired a pair of veteran troupers, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, to play the family next door and serve as foils and friends for Desi and Lucille. Academy Award-winning Karl (The Good Earth) Freund supervises the three cameras, and Director Marc Daniels (soon to be replaced by Bill Asher) gives Lucy its rattling pace. The writers-Jess Oppenheimer, Bill Carroll and Madalyn Pugh-turn out scripts that do not impose too much on the audience's credulity and are reasonably free of cliches. The writers are held in an esteem not common in TV. Lucille bombards...
...Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is a triumph of bounce over bumbling material. Comedienne Lucille Ball romps engagingly through a series of vaudeville routines, gets adequate assistance from her husband, Desi Arnaz, and raucous support from veteran Actors William Frawley and Vivian Vance...
...movie surrounds Hope with a whole gallery of Runyon types sporting names like Gloomy Willie (William Frawley) and Straight Flush (Jay C. Flippen). Jane Darwell plays an authentic old doll named Nellie Thursday, and Marilyn Maxwell supplies songs and cheesecake as a showgirl reluctantly in thrall to the Lemon Drop Kid. They treat their problems with deadpan earnestness, as Runyon intended them to, and beneath each sharp lapel and checkered vest beats a heart of gold...