Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame their audiences' tastes rather than their own for what gets on the air, Dozier produced not only Batman but also two other series that contributed to TV's debasement during that period-Green Hornet and The Tammy Grimes Show. Tammy, an implausible sitchcom about a mindless heiress, lasted only four weeks and was, as Dozier himself admitted to his class, "the most conspicuous failure ever on television." Now that he is back in movies, Dozier feels free to lecture his longtime TV colleagues. "There hasn't been a meaningful show since The Defenders," he says...
...figure) to $300,000 (the Administration's figure). Key moneymen: Dreyfus Fund President Howard Stein, who is said to have raised some $100,000; Arnold Hiatt, executive vice president of Boston's Green Shoe Manufacturing Co.; independently wealthy Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz; and San Francisco Heiress June Degnan...
...prospect of prosperity came in 1962, when Standard Oil Heiress Rebekah Harkness, a longtime ballet buff, invited the company to her 49-room ocean-front mansion in Watch Hill, R.I., to initiate a summer dance workshop. Lady Bountiful they called her, and so it seemed during the next two years when she helped finance the successful Jeffrey tours of the Near East and Russia. As time went on, however, Lady Bountiful began to seem more like Lady Macbeth to Jeffrey. She wanted more say in artistic matters and insisted on changing the company's name to her own. Jeffrey...
...Witness Britain's venerable Oxford Union, an all-male preserve for 142 years until it banned de sexo segregation in 1963. Just four years later, the university debating society has elected a girl president. She is pert, brunette Seraldine Jones, 21, daughter of a Liverpool schoolmaster and now heiress to an office once held by William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and Ted Heath. There'll be no nonsense about a counterattack either. "I trust that men who find my presence in the union disturbing," said Geraldine, "will stay away...
...DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Royal Follies of 1933" stars Danny as a prince whose betrothal to a meatpacking heiress (Eve Arden) does not keep him from falling for a chorine (Shirley Jones). Other Folliers include Hans Conned and Kurt Kasznar, with cameos by Bob Hope and Johnny Carson...