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Honestly, Celeste! (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) lets Comedienne Celeste Holm play hob with a newspaper office and appears to have been created by the second-string writers of NBC's Dear Phoebe, which is also a situation comedy laid in a newspaper office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...both the words and the music. She never sings the same song twice in the same way. Even when using an identical arrangement for I Believe, Mahalia sang one version in two minutes, 40 seconds and another in three minutes, 20 seconds - a 40-second difference that could play hob with radio's split-second timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gospel with a Bounce | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...that time forgot. On the CinemaScope screen it is a multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Queried by reporters in Washington yesterday, Sears said, "It's going to raise hob with my work in Washington. But I do not feel that any lawyer without special reason should...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Sears Nomination Widely Protested | 4/2/1954 | See Source »

...story at the local cable station and asked when it would reach New York. The operator calculated that with luck it might be delivered by the following Tuesday." Between Ndola and Capetown, the operator explained, there were an awful lot of elephants, and elephants have a habit of playing hob with telegraph lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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