Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport, waves of schoolgirls swept up to the handsome visitor to hang garlands of marigolds about his neck. The prince made a mock stagger under the weight of the flowers. "I feel like a bullock with all these garlands," he shouted, and the crowd roared with laughter. When some children began playfully pelting him with blossoms, he pelted right back. Finally, Prime Minister Nehru got him to the waiting automobile. "Shall we drive in an open car?" he asked. "I think that would be fun," said Philip...
...overly ethical professor of ethics (Hans Conried) faced with flunking a star basketball player before the big game. A fellow facultyman: Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, making one of his occasional appearances as an actor. Wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer's Henry T. Murdock: "An evening of hearty laughter with no complicating complexes." Opens on Broadway...
POLICE TERROR in Russia was all the fault of the late liquidated Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, an "adventurer . . . a sort of businessman in politics" (laughter...
ADLAI STEVENSON is highly regarded by Soviet leadership as one who really wants to understand Russia. "Mr. Stevenson lacked a few million votes of becoming President. Perhaps if we had been approached, we could have lent them to him" (laughter). Murmured Adlai: "I am flattered at the suggestion, but it is a little late...
...hard enough to figure how the handsome, hard-eyed guy in the Ivy League lapels keeps a straight face while he straightens out such impossible plots. It is even harder to figure how his audience keeps from collapsing with laughter. But they both manage. Introduced by NBC (Monday, 9-9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) this fall as a kind of literate Mike Hammer, Private Eye Gunn in less than two months was pressing the prizewinning Danny Thomas Show, in latest surveys ranks near the top of NBC programs...