Word: hamme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELIZABETH HAMM Los Angeles...
...reputation suffers from the insipid conversations he conducts on Person to Person (and even some of his See It Now interviews show a lack of the flexibility to follow up an opening instead of going on to a prearranged question). Person to Person (sponsors: American Oil Co. and Hamm Brewing Co. alternating with LIFE) makes its pitch mainly to viewers who want to rubberneck in celebrities' homes. It deliberately casts Murrow, sitting in a Manhattan studio, as a discreet electronic guest whose job is to make polite chitchat, not ask probing questions. Murrow's own discomfort is sometimes...
...Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where in the family Volkswagen. Dutchmen and Danes by the thousands were leaving their lowland homes for a brief, refreshing holiday in Germany's nearby...
...game with the invention of 32 timesaving hand signals (for the six "basic" signals, see panel), and years of competition have given to some of his players-Jackie Coogan, Hans Conried, Dorothy Hart, Carol Haney, the late Judy Tyler-an almost telepathic quickness. Sponsors (currently: LIFE, Amoco and Hamm's Beer) like the show because it is economical ($10,000 a week) and usually bags a respectable rating. Actors like the show, despite a meager $250 stipend, because it requires no preparation, is fun to play, and gives them a welcome chance to ham it up. Vincent Price credits...
...JANE A. HAMM...