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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Troubleshooters (NBC, Fri. 8-8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is for all incorrigible sidewalk superintendents who like to watch the big power shovels and the ponderous cats crunch through their job, or like to hear the big blast in the deep hole. And those who like to follow the impressive accomplishments of men and machines-from tunnels to tough road jobs, to bridge building in Pakistan-may not mind the pure corn of the story line and the predictable antics of those two hefty part ners, Keenan Wynn and Decathlon Star Bob Mathias...
These days, during the show's Boston tryout, the entire adult company of The Miracle Worker treats Patty as their professional peer. They hardly remember her age until, at her mother's insistence, she knocks off like a good little girl for her afternoon...
...scene: a sports banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. When M.C. Ralph ("Happy") Edwards advanced on Correspondent and World Traveler Lowell Thomas with the familiar, savagely cheerful cry ("This is your life"), Thomas simply refused to play. An old hand at radio and TV himself, Thomas had guessed (like many subjects nowadays) that he had been chosen for the honor of having his life re-created as a half-hour soap opera. Thomas snarled: "I think this is a sinister conspiracy." Edwards dissolved into a nervous giggle from which neither he nor the program ever quite recovered...
Basement Beginning. Her story of her career reads like the schmalz she sells. A Berlin postman's daughter. Use was 17 when she went to work as a secretary for UFA, prewar Germany's movie giant. A few years later, when she switched to the Monopol studios, she was already an unbeatable combination of the seemingly in genuous female and the obviously ingenious financier. In 1934, Use was ready to take over, and for years, she practiced the tough trade of running a movie studio; then the Red army moved on Berlin. Use escaped to Bavaria with only...
Sometime I feel like, baby, committin' suicide . . . I got the nerve if I just had anythin' to do it with. I'm gain' down slow, somethin' wrong with me. I've got to make a change while that I'm still young. If I don't I won't ever...