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Word: itness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play of the Week's effort to wake up viewers seems on the way to commercial success. It has attracted seven sponsors, who cover 70% of expenses. The average play costs only $40,000 to produce, partly because players take relatively low salaries ($750 for stars). Eventually, NTA plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Waking Them Up at Night | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Paar kept saying: "I don't know what to do," and Rooney claimed: "I'm not trying to be inobtrusive." Then Rooney began to discuss the previous night's Jack Paar Show, said, "I stayed up until I couldn't sleep any more. May I say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

So Mickey walked out. "It's a shame," said Paar to his microphone. "He was a great talent." A man in the audience asked if the Mickaruni had really been schnoggered. Paar: "I don't think so. I think he's high-strung. But I wouldn'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

When the American Medical Association met in Dallas last week for its annual winter clinical sessions, the sun shone brilliantly if coolly over what Texans call the "Land of the Big Sky." But big sky and bright sun are far from being an unmixed blessing, warned Houston's Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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