Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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History was the honored guest at the London conference. In stately Lancaster House, where Chopin once played mazurkas for Queen Victoria, the accolade of sovereignty was restored, in all but name, to defeated West Germany. Britain dramatically abandoned a centuries-old tradition of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. The U.S. firmly offered to keep an American army in Europe so long as Europe is threatened. Both offers were made to reassure France, finicky with ancient fears which history was rendering obsolete. France responded by agreeing to Germany's rearmament and admission into the North Atlantic alliance...
...broke up their topnotch Show of Shows team last spring, do as well separately as they did together? With his own Caesar's Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC), Sid began with a fine skit in a cafeteria, went on to a funny getting-dressed scene. But when Guest Star Gina Lollobrigida showed up, he switched from well-paced pantomime to goo-goo-eyed mugging that suggested Milton Berle...
With Billy de Wolfe as her guest, Imogene Coca (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC) did little better with song and a strained set of sketches. Only in one skit-Motorist Coca trying to get through a toll station without a dime-did she show her talent for getting laughs with the famous whimper...
...Manhattan situation, but, in his second season, there was still not enough of the famed Bolger dancing shoes. A more pretentious 60-minute production is The Martha Raye Show (alternating Tuesdays, 8 p.m., NBC). Tireless Trouper Raye bounced through songs and dances, but even her magnificent energy and Guest Star Wally Cox's support failed to pull along the old story line. The gags were hysterical, the mugging furious, and the sponsor (Hazel Bishop lipstick) added to the confusion by forcing its inane commercials into the action...
Brigadier-General Edwin N. Clark, President of the China Institute of America, will be the guest of honor today at a reception to announce the opening of a Home Hospitality Center for Chinese students living in Boston and vicinity...