Word: garlanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret World of Eddie Hodges (10-11 p.m.). An hour of musical fantasy, starring Child Actor Eddie Hodges as a daydreaming, hero-worshiping youngster more or less like Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Guests: Bert Lahr, Boris Karlof
...wreath that rings every U.S. metropolis is a green garland of place names and people collectively called Suburbia. It weaves through the hills beyond the cities, marches across flatlands that once were farms and pastures, dips into gullies and woodlands, straddles the rocky hillocks and surrounds the lonesome crossroads. Oftener than not it has a lilting polyphony that sings of trees (Streamwood, Elmwood, Lakewood. Kirkwood), the rolling country (Cedar Hill, Cockrell Hill, Forest Hills), or the primeval timberlands (Forest Grove, Park Forest, Oak Park, Deer Park). But it has its roots in such venerable names as Salem, Greenwich, Chester, Berkeley...
...Marilyn Monroe, Clifford Odets, and Susan Strasberg, for instance, seek their zodiacal advice elsewhere. When he first met Monroe, Righter made a bid to impress her and said: "I know-you're a Gemini. Did you know you were born under the same sign as Rosalind Russell, Judy Garland and Rosemary Clooney?" Marilyn looked him straight in the eye and answered: "I know nothing about those people. I was born under the same sign as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Queen Victoria and Walt Whitman...