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Many a network official was trying frantically last week to prove that (in the words of a popular commercial) he was Mr. Clean. So busy was the TV industry at its new purity kick that, according to the latest Madison Avenue gag, "CBS is about to move Church of the Air to prime evening time." NBC finally got around to bouncing the admittedly corrupt Tic Tac Dough, chose an apt replacement: Truth or Consequences. Still another lavish NBC giveaway, The Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Purity Kick | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...both football and basketball. At S.M.U. he is a business major (C average), counts the days until Christmas vacation when he will marry blonde Cheerleader Lynne Shamburger, wears a complete wardrobe from his father's dry-goods store in Mt. Vernon, and grins at the standard campus gag: Meredith has done more for Mt. Vernon than George Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Texas Whip | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Warm Peninsula is a comedy, of course, and often funny. But the humor is in an aged gag-line form. (Iris Floria, an aged silent-screen siren, admits that she still takes milk baths. "But milk is so expensive now that I use Starlac!') The plot does not contain an intrinsically comic situation...

Author: By Carl PHILLIPS Jr., | Title: Warm Peninsula | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

Thus Novelist-Playwright Herman Wouk, now 44, who started out as a gag writer for Fred Allen, went on to write The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar, tells how he came to give a second try to the Judaism in which he was born. That "gamble," as he calls it, resulted in a steadily deepening faith and practice-Sabbath, dietary laws and all-which survived the rigors of three years at sea in the Navy and continued citizenship in the realms of gold. It also resulted in Author Wouk's latest book, This Is My God (Doubleday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Life of Mr. Abramson | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Despite popular overworking of the gag, "I'm allergic to work." authentic cases of this condition are medical rarities. Now two physicians report (in the Annals of Internal Medicine) a well-attested case that showed up-not surprisingly-in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hives of Effort | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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