Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swift progression, like a series of lamps brightening up a corridor. What the crowds, large or small, recognize is not only a man who has made them laugh but one who, without sentimentality, ostentation or ballyhoo, has become a national hero. The trophy room in Hope's North Hollywood home is filled like an overendowed museum with awards, honorary degrees and gifts that would be the envy of a Nobel prizewinner. One of them is the gold medal, voted by Congress and presented to him by President Kennedy in 1963, honoring him as ''America's most...
...joke, joke, joke. And a lot of them were dogs, dogs, dogs. Some friends "had a very exclusive wedding," went one. "They threw a Chinaman with every grain of rice." Or: "I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that we're broadcasting from NBC's new Hollywood studios ... a big beautiful building. They tell me it cost more than Mrs. Roosevelt's annual train fee." And the one about the excessive gadgetry in the new cars: "I pushed one button and opened a WPA bridge in Salt Lake City...
...entertained became his postwar army of fans. Hope's early memoir, I Never Left. Home, sold 1,600,000 copies, royalties for which he turned over to the National War Fund. By 1949, his movies-Monsieur Beaucaire, The Paleface, Sorrowful Jones, My Favorite Brunette-had established him as Hollywood's top box-office draw. The next year, he decided to get into TV "before Milton Berle uses up all my material." NBC paid him $40,000 for his first special. That same year, he won a Peabody Award for The Quick and the Dead, a four-part radio...
College Rounds. Nowadays, Hope has given up radio, but has increased his TV specials to nine a year, in addition to guest shots. Just a few weeks ago, busy as he was putting together his Viet Nam touring company, he taped a Hollywood Palace show with Crosby for ABC as well as his own NBC Christmas show. He also cranks out a movie a year, the last few of which have been excessively cornball-an embarrassment to his old fans. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, which he just wrapped up this month with Phyllis Diller, is likely...
Alan D. Bersin, of Kirkland House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; William A. Fletcher, of Kirkland House and Seattle, Wash.; Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. of Leverett House and Atlanta, Ga.; Frederick N. Ris of Eliot House and Denver, Colo.; David A Samuels, of Eliot House and Hollywood, Fla.; and Thomas S. Williamson Jr., of Kirkland House and Piedmont, Calif., are recipients of the scholarship...