Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donald O'Connor thinks, with good reason, that television is wonderful. After 14 years in Hollywood, his movie career had tobogganed to the point where he was playing second lead to a talking mule in the Francis pictures. But after one guest appearance on TV with Jimmy Durante, Donald was signed as one of the rotating stars (the others: Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such...
Bing Crosby Show (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Dinah Shore...
...emphasis at Lowell under Perkins falls on tradition and custom. Of all the traditional observances the favorite seems to be the weekly teas on Thursday, where Mrs. Perkins entertains with the Master. She presides over the teapot and can tell a seldom-seen guest that she has forgotten his name in a most delightful way. The only person ever to get the better of Mrs. Perkins was the brash Midwestern sophomore who came to tea on a bet and demanded his with lemon and cream and five sugars...
...Visiting Gethsemani Abbey this fall, I spent two hours on the guest house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
Martin & Lewis Show (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor...