Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours. The years were few. One December night in 1953 Rear Admiral Parsons waked with sharp chest pain. He slipped silently downstairs in his Washington home, picked out to read Volume XI of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, methodically turned to the section marked Heart, Diseases of the. It was too late for Deke Parsons (52); he collapsed and died next...
Today it is already fashionable to forget how few people gave the show a chance to survive at all with a tough TV audience -night people already addicted to six-gun cowpokes or to the time-defying charms of late movies, with their youthful Gables and ageless Garbos. Could the All-American boy with the dimpled chin and the dinky toupee move the merchandise against such competition? At first NBC bigwigs were talking about a well-integrated variety show. Says Paar: "A television executive doesn't know what he wants to do, but he can put it on paper...
Only six months ago, the cry was that the Government was doing too little too late to cure the recession; now, with the economy on the upgrade, it is plain that a far bigger mistake would have been to do too much too soon. Says an Administration economist: "An antirecession policy is supposed to be dramatic, or you find yourself accused of having no policy at all. But just as important as what we did was our unwillingness to do some of the wrong things...
Born. To Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, 54, patriarchal tycrooner, horseman, low-handicap golfer, and Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant (formerly Olive Kathryn Grandstaff of West Columbia, Texas), 24: a son, their first child (he has four other sons by his first wife, the late Musicomedienne Dixie Lee); in Hollywood. Name: Harry Lillis III. Nickname: Tex. Weight...
...story is the usual daffy maize. Andy, now a prospering lawyer working for a West Coast aircraft manufacturer, returns to the sleepy Midwestern town of Carvel to negotiate for a plant site. Judge Hardy (the late Lewis Stone) has long since died. But Mom (Fay Holden), Aunt Milly (Sara Haden) and sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) are still settin' in the comfortable chairs of that old white house on Ames Avenue...