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...young and old. He wrote his own scripts for four televised, hour-long concerts (the last is due next month), using much the same technique as in the Omnibus music-appreciation series (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Teacher Bernstein combined, in equal parts, his musical knowledge, charm, eloquence and ham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lennie's Kindergarten | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads for the crowd again. Says Co-Owner Tom Ross: "I swear, he counts the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out of Bunyan by Runyon | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Shush, Baby." Instead of an ego-massaging entourage of yesmen, the old ham had only his personal valet, Lorenzo Chestnut, by his side. In Chestnut's hands were the familiar Berle off-screen props: a soiled towel for mopping the star, a glass of water, a fistful of Dunhill's Larranaga cigars with big white billing on the cellophane: "SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR MILTON BERLE." Said Lorenzo: "I keep one lit for him when he comes off." As Berle waited glumly for his cue, he scowled at a monitor and frazzled the seven-in. Larranaga. "Shush, baby, shush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return of an Old Ham | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...image of Berle. Said Technical Director Bob Hanna, who worked Berle's first TV shows ten years ago: "He really hasn't changed. Only he doesn't have the whistle he used to wear around his neck to get everyone quiet. He's an old ham-the minute he gets an audience he starts performing." During rehearsal breaks Berle clowned brassily. "Look," he exclaimed to the crew, after the first run-through, "I did it all without a Teleprompter." He half-sprinted from set to set, waving technicians aside with "Hey, hey, look out!" And, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return of an Old Ham | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...result that, though only 23, she had one illegitimate son in the fashionable London district of St. John's Wood and at least ?1,000,000 in the kitty. His eyes sparkling, Prince Louis forgave Miss Howard. He himself, he confessed, was not without sin. While incarcerated at Ham, he had fathered two sons of the jailer's daughter-"the fruits of captivity," he murmured. Then he threw himself at Miss Howard's feet and knocked her off her bank balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl with the Moneybags | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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