Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 54 once, so Jackie Gleason got together with 800 or so of his closest friends for a monster birthday party at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. It cost $25 a plate, but it was worth it; amid the celebration came a phone call from the President. The White House gagwriters had obviously been at work: "The operator said we had a bad connection," Richard Nixon told the Great One. "I was afraid your Norton [Jackie's bumbling TV sidekick] had gone to work for the telephone company." Replied Gleason: "If you'd like...
...Aubrey reign of the early 1960s. The network abandoned many of the traditional shows that had given it clear superiority in rural areas and among the elderly. It concentrated instead on its idea of sophistication. That meant the cancellation of The Red Skelton Show after 16 seasons, The Jackie Gleason Show after eight successful years and Petticoat Junction after seven...
...members are: John T. Dunlop, acting dean of the Faculty, chairman; Alan E. Heimert '49, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Litcrature and Master of Eliot House, vice-chairman; Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy: and Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economies...
Natural Science, tenured: Nicholas Bloembergen, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics; Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology. Nontenured: Ronald V. Book, assistant professor of Computer Sciences, and Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...
...Winslow R. Briggs, Biology; Paul M. Doty, Biochemistry; Nicholas Bloemberger, Dept. of Engineering and Applied Physics (DEAP); Andrew M. Gleason, Mathematics; Henry Ehrenreich, DEAP; Edwin E. Moise, Mathematics; Edgar B. Wilson, Chemistry; Bruce Chalmers, DEAP; George Wald, Biology; Elias J. Corey, Chemistry; Charles W. Burnham, Geological Science; Jerome S. Bruner, Psychology; Gerald Holton, Physics...