Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breed of blander favorites-the Perry Comos, the Lawrence Welks. the Tennessee Ernie Fords (see below). Almost all the comics have surrendered or compromised in the face of TV's terrible challenge of keeping both material and audiences from getting tired. Next fall CBS's Jackie Gleason will take a sabbatical, and NBC's George Gobel will try to salvage his popularity by cutting down his exposure. Such perennials as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have taken refuge in limited appearances or filmed situation comedies that produce greater mileage for less material. Next season...
Andrew M. Gleason, associate professor of Mathematics, annually choose three members for the team, which has placed among the top three teams in the country each year since...
Comic Eddie Cantor, 65 last January, was set to join the small roster of well-heeled showfolk collecting Social Security old-age benefits (some others: Francis X. Bushman, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason). Whenever Millionaire Cantor and wife Ida get their monthly $161.70 (for any month in which Eddie earns less than $80), they will forward it to a New York boys' camp where Cantor gamboled 53 summers...
When Marion Gleason was a busy housewife with four small children, she had an experience that leaves any mother limp: the maid who gave year-old Peter his morning tablespoonful of cod-liver oil picked up the wrong bottle one day, and the baby became violently ill. The bottle contained a strong disinfectant. Peter recovered (he is now, at 31, a radiologist). Last week, thanks largely to that experience, the name of his mother, Marion N. Gleason, appeared as senior author (although she has no degree in medicine or chemistry) over the names of two double-doctorate professors...
...Marion Gleason, 66, raised her family in Rochester, N.Y., and in 1945 helped set up a state safety-planning program. From this she slid into a post as research assistant in pharmacology at the University of Rochester, and did what came naturally-concentrated on the effects of chemicals widely used in cosmetics, household disinfectants and cleaning fluids, dyes, paints, insecticides and shoe polishes...