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...guests for his next show: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Al Capp, Author Charles G. (The Next Million Years) Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt. The guests will appear without fee, which is exactly what Berns has to spend on the show. On past programs, he has preserved the pop of bubble gum, statements from Grandma Moses and Sam Goldwyn, a conversation between London and Manhattan cabbies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Man with a Shoestring | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Yale University's President A. Whitney Griswold gave a University of Georgia audience his thumbnail summary of the state of culture in the U.S. Said he: "Culture is being lost among oxidized jukeboxes and television sets and petrified bubble gum." Furthermore, he added, "We are the best informed nation in the world, with the most primitive ideas of what to do with the knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...actress were presented sharply and adroitly in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Nor is Bette Davis disappointing: she shrieks, she bellows, she rolls her prodigious eyes. But this time the script is as aged as its heroine, and The Star, with a lack of biting satire, can only gum its way through a dim Hollywood adventure...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Star | 3/3/1953 | See Source »

Through the streets they pranced, gorgeous and irrepressible, beating drums, blowing horns, hopping over the open sewers to the tune of the Third Man Theme played by a marching Dixieland band, sometimes dancing a quaint, shuffling samba, some balancing trays of chewing gum and candies on their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...topflight performer in her own right. Working in his spine-jarring sport where broken arms & legs are commonplace, Tompkins has only had one real injury: a pulled thigh ligament. The enforced month's layoff ("I knew I wouldn't be at my best") made nervous, gum-chewing Tompkins edgier than ever, kept him out of action just long enough to lose the bull-riding title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Self-Made Cowboy | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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