Word: kukla
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...greatest thing ever since Kukla, Fran, and Ollie will effront local televiewers tonight at 6:45 p.m., when Edward J. Coughlin '52, William S. Holbrook '52, and Genevieve Geller, Wellesley '52, meet on WBZ-TV's "Spice of Life" show...
...Fence Me In. The man who touched off this twin epidemic of hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop...
...Woman of the Year: Faye Emerson (NBCTV and CBS-TV). Drama Show: Studio One (CBS-TV). Comedy Show: MiltonBerle (NBCTV). Musical Show: Fred Waring (CBS-TV)' Commentator: John Cameron Swayze (NBC-TV). Quiz Show: Stop the Music (ABC-TV). Sportcaster: Jimmy Powers (NBC-TV)! Children's Show: Kukla, Fran & Olli...
...scriptless show is planned by "four guys sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains NBC's Chicago Station Manager Jules Herbuveaux: "New York thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that the stage can't cure...
Ephemeral Sadness. This mood has been caught by viewers. Once when Kukla blew his nose on the curtain, 250 handkerchiefs arrived from fans within two days. Unable to answer more than a small fraction of the 8,000-odd letters that pour in each week, Tillstrom mails out a chatty newspaper, the Kuklapolitan Courier, some five times a year (current circulation...