Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swedish-legation attache who was picked up by Russian secret police in Budapest near the end of World War II. When the NKVD drove him off to Marshal Malinovsky's headquarters on Jan. 17, 1945, Wallenberg said: "I'm going to Malinovsky's . . . whether as a guest or prisoner I do not know yet." Those were the last words ever heard from...
...with as many as 5,000 soldiers under strict orders to appreciate him. The French refined it with the institution of the claque, with such specialists as rieurs* or laughers. In the heyday of U.S. radio, comics often helped a laugh along by kicking the announcer or pummeling the guest star to get studio audiences laughing at what unseeing hearers could only assume was the comic's wit. But it remained for TV to forge mirth with disembodied electronic efficiency...
Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guest: Ginger Rogers (color...
...nightmare began when he hit $99,000. Since then, he has given close to 100 interviews, made guest appearances on other TV shows, parried dinner invitations from as far away as Boston and Philadelphia, put up with the same questions from strangers in streets, subways and restaurants ("Whaddaya gonna do with all that money?" "How does that game work anyway?"), and succeeded in getting his telephone number changed just as the phone was about to drive him out of his apartment. From The Bronx to Basutoland, fans have deluged him with 2,000 letters, including 20 outright proposals of marriage...
...eleven-point question is not whether Van Doren will go on gambling on TV but whether his whole career may-not be about to veer again. His celebrity has drawn a swarm of offers: to appear on TV as guest star, panelist, moderator of his own series, to edit almanacs and write magazine articles. Barry & Enright want him to join them later as a consultant, and NBC is preparing to make him an offer as a performer. Says Charlie: "Everybody in the world knows what I should do except me. Before last November, I knew I wanted to teach...