Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Ed Sullivan's variety show, with Edith Piaf, Helen Hayes, Pat O'Brien...
...tactics used by Nixie the kind and the good against Helen Gahagan Douglas . . . ("He audibly and publicly worried about her health . . .") recall a similar Republican ploy of 1932 when the New York Sun piously trusted that the crippled Franklin D. Roosevelt could be kept out of the presidency "for his own good...
...Champion Maureen Connolly, still only 17, won her second title by outlasting Doris Hart, 6-3, 7-5. Onetime Wimbledon Champ Hart, who had already failed twice to win the U.S. title after reaching the final, won huge applause from the fans. Champion Connolly joined the exclusive company of Helen Wills, Alice Marble and Pauline Betz, the only other women to win both Wimbledon and U.S. crowns the same year...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Wisteria Trees (adapted by Joshua Logan from Chekhov's Cherry Orchard), with Helen Hayes, Joseph Cotten...
...Nineties (Helen Traubel; Victor LP). Wagnerian Soprano Traubel has a big reputation, a big voice. She scales the voice down pretty far for the old pulse-bumpers like A Bird in a Gilded Cage, My Mother Was a Lady, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. The job could have been done with more authority by somebody closer to the idiom...