Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bighearted Molly Goldberg (played, as usual, by Author Gertrude Berg) still rules her clan with the same firm but pliant hand that stirs the big pots forever simmering on her stove. She never runs out of soup for the neighbors, malapropisms for the audience, or schemes for rearranging other people's lives. This time, almost wrecking her husband Jake (Philip Loeb) in the process, she regroups a romantic quadrangle involving an overage suitor and his pink-cheeked fiancee, a middle-aged widow and an eligible young...
...raid the bishop's territory. But so far there has been no big attack. Bui Chu and Phat Diem still manage to maintain their independent existence. At the back of Monsignor Le Huu Tu's episcopal palace, the lathes grind out crude grenades, mortars and one Rube Goldberg contraption, proudly described by one of the priests as "our flying bomb...
Mozart: Concerto No. 18, K.456 (Lili Kraus, pianist; with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Goehr conducting; Decca-Parlophone, 2 sides LP). This is one of Mozart's finest concertos, and Pianist Kraus plays it strongly and forthrightly. Completing the second side, with Violinist Szymon Goldberg, she plays the unfinished Sonata K.404. Performance and recording: good...
...among the "comics" in being really, and deliberately, funny. At 41, after 14 years of drawing Li'l Abner, Capp makes $300,000 a year, is read by 38 million fans in 700 U.S. newspapers, and has been favorably compared not only to such classic cartoonists as Rube Goldberg, but to such writers as Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Voltaire...
...week, at least, an American had the last word: he was Rube Goldberg, who nailed Russia's lying version of the facts in a memorable cartoon...