Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway, 2) in the movies, and 3) on television. But last week, at 46, he was up to a candlepower to brighten any mother's eye as he starred in his own Bob Cummings Show (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS), made a guest appearance with Perry Como, and played host (with his children: Robert, 10, and Melinda, 8) on CBS's Circus Highlights from Madison Square Garden...
...show that Sammy finally dominates remains a nightclub show. His amiably urgent personality blends with drinks on tables; he himself has the air of a host who is always dashing about to show his guests something new. His unusual versatility, again, would pay off better if it were all done in one piece, if it could quick-change, nightclub-style, from tap dancing (Sammy's real forte) to vocalizing to clever imitations to blowing a trumpet to banging the traps...
Life in Winthrop is active. Early in the fall each resident tutor plays host to the undergraduates in his particular entry, mixing drinks with conversation. There are also a number of House "mixers" and dances throughout the yea, and one or two general outings. This year, for example, on the Friday night before the Princeton game house members retired to a suburban inn for an enjoyable evening of dancing. Special dinners are also often arranged, following which prominent guests, Joseph Alsop being the most recent, speak in the Junior Common Room...
...Hall Jr. (who commanded amphibious landings under General Eisenhower during World War II) as "the old Viking admiral." On another day the President entertained Ireland's John A. (for Aloysius) Costello, who identified himself as a "very unimportant Prime Minister of a very important country," and presented his host with a silver bowl full of shamrocks; in return, he received a framed picture...