Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dewey who last week carried on his own crusade to capture New York for the Republicans. Audiences recalling his 1948 campaign manner found that the waxiness of his smile seemed to have melted, giving way to genuine friendliness and humor. He was self-assured, easily articulate, and clearly the Republicans' smoothest TV star (Dewey plans at least twelve TV appearances before the election, will also join Eisenhower on a whistle-stop tour of New York later this month). On TV last week, he continued his fight to show New York's minority groups that the Democrats' record...
Another Lie. In high good humor because his colt Prince Arthur had just paid 20 to 1 at Lingfield Park, Winston Churchill arrived in Scarborough on the next to last day of the conference. A huge crowd was waiting to meet him at the station. Churchill left his wife in the car sent to meet him, and on foot slogged along happily in the crowd's midst for half a mile. "What was it they promised if a Conservative government was elected?" he asked his fellow Tories. "War. Churchill the warmonger would plunge us into war. Well...
Jackie Gleason Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS). Uneven comedy show that sometimes hits a high level of humor...
...says that we Republicans don't have a sense of humor? We have renominated that clown Joe McCarthy in Wisconsin and his comrades Jenner and Cain in their respective states ... I do hope that we don't carry our humor too far and produce a framework of senatorial party organization within which it would be impossible for constructive [Republican] conservatives and responsible liberals such as Morse, Ives, Lodge, Smith, Saltonstall, Aiken, Duff and Thye to operate in behalf of the people...
...enough about the series to pay $32,000 for each film. Like the Lucille Ball show, Miss Brooks is filmed before a live audience and its laughter is cued into the final print. Like Lucy, it is played in short speedy scenes, and sight gags supply much of the humor. Like Lucille Ball, Eve Arden dominates her own show...