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...should I? I never saw myself on the stage either, you know." She had television down pat: "It's hell." Notwithstanding its hellishness, Actress Barrymore sat down last week and was photographed as she signed a long-term contract to emote in a series of half-hour TV shows, starting next April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...adoption, a church-state issue, however small, is like a hot scent to a coon hound. When Lawyer Paul Blanshard-whose bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power launched him on a career of Catholic-needling-learned that the children in his own town of Thetford were getting a weekly half-hour of nonsectarian religious instruction in the classroom, he promptly went into action. Blanshard formally asked Education Commissioner A. John Holden Jr. to notify all Vermont's schools that "the teaching of religion in public schools as part of the regular schedule of instruction" was unlawful and must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blanshard Over Vermont | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...last fortnight, the newspapers and beer bottles-and the skill of the delivery team-were put to a greater test than usual. A call came in to the center's switchboard asking for a doctor to attend a Puerto Rican woman a half-hour's drive away. Quickly, a delivery crew assembled: Spanish-born Dr. Esteban Martin Martin. University of Wisconsin Medical Student Marvin Hinke and two visiting nurses. They picked up their black bags and set out in Dr. Martin's car. When it broke down (Martin's diagnosis: "Vascular ailment of the gas line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Baby Commandos | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Droodles (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC), the brainchild of Funnyman Roger Price, has been seen in guest appearances on several winter programs. Now tricked out with the usual panel-and-M.C. format, the show has its own half-hour. Price draws diagrammatic outlines, and his panel tries to guess what the drawings represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Imitators | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...wonder is how beautifully she plays it. For the first half-hour Actress Booth breathes such a warm belief into the dull things she is doing that the audience willingly suspends the disbelief the silly plot inspires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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