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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only too right. Challenge is a mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned melodrama. Theoretically, the show deals with a Government scientist (George Nader) studying the limits of human endurance in dangerous situations. Actually, it presents such high-flown nonsense as a story of top-rank researchers sitting out a nuclear war in an atomic submarine and suddenly tumbling to some old problems such as the extraction of oxygen from sea water...
...Hermione's furs, and Carney in suicidal despair over having given the "wrong order" on D-day ("Desert!") was as funny as anything seen on TV. On his first of eight monthly shows this year, Carney was badly hampered by some dreadful jokes and a couple of high-school-level musical numbers. But in the skits he triumphed with his marvelously mobile face, his adaptable voice (he started in radio 17 years ago on a serious news show, impersonating Churchill and F.D.R.) and the conscientiousness about being funny that marks a major clown...
...show's high point: Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke...
Thomas: The truth is that the high school principal stole my girl...
ALMOST a century ago a Belgian knight named Fritz Mayer van den Bergh began collecting art objects. He concentrated on Northern Renaissance examples, amassed some 1,000 pieces of high quality before his death in 1901. To hold the collection as a memorial, his mother founded the Mayer van den Bergh Museum. Tucked away in Antwerp's banking district and unchanged in 55 years, the museum is open every day except Monday in the summertime, and on even-numbered days all winter, charges only 5 francs (10?) admission. Yet the number of visitors annually is under...