Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news was good and getting fabulously better: not only was Estes Kefauver* beating Harry Truman in the preferential "beauty contest," but he was winning all twelve of the delegates to the Democratic convention. Kefauver had been rated an outside chance to win a single delegate. Whispered one guest to another: "I was afraid the voters wouldn't know our delegates." "Hell," snorted his friend, "I didn't know a one of them myself." An old Kefauver admirer, who had come up from Tennessee for the fun, shook his head admiringly and drawled into the din: "Handshaking seems...
...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Jimmy Durante. Guest: Margaret Truman...
...Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey (see MEDICINE), who had his first big taste of television as a Kefauver crimebuster, was still going strong on the air waves. Last week, after a stint on television as mystery guest on What's My Line and narrator on Crime Syndicated, he turned to radio as disk jockey for a recorded program, laced with Tobey sermonettes and hymns, for Washington's WGMS, and as narrator for a youngsters' bedtime program on WGAY in Silver Spring...
Four hundred Irishmen trooped into the ballroom of a Manhattan hotel last week for the annual dinner of the Dublin Society of New York. As guest of honor they had a clergyman with them, a learned fellow Dubliner who came to the U.S. just three years ago. Declaimed Toastmaster Terry Long: "This man of God is a native of Dublin, a fluent Gaelic speaker and an authority on Irish folklore. In these days of stress, when we see men turning against their fellow man because of race or color, it is heartening to see among...
...retirement from the Met in 1945: "It is the heart . . . When one is older, the heart cannot bear the strain and worry and excitement [of the opera stage]. It tells on the voice." However, he finds TV more pleasure than strain, and after his third appearance as a guest is giving some thought to a program...