Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words of my own"). He is at his best in a country store, passing out campaign cards with the wry reminder: "I'm out of a job, you know." At political coffee hours in the homes of friendly Republicans, his smiling wife Mabel passes out angel-food cake recipes while Doug attacks Wayne Morse ("that fellow has gone back on his word so many times that nobody can trust him") and reminisces about his Oregon youth ("The only reading matter we had was the St. Helens Sentinel-Mist, the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalogue"). Glowed a recent convert...
Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She and her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
...situation comedies are less successful. Joe and Mabel (Tues. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) recounts the tribulations of a Brooklyn taxicab driver and his girl ("He's the sweetest fella a girl ever went to Florida without"), labors through improbable incidents and even less likely dialogue. The Charlie Farrell Show (Mon. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) takes place at the former screen star's plush Palm Springs Racquet Club; even in that glamorous setting it is corny and witless...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Miss Mabel, starring Elsa Lancaster...
...Question, the Louis Cowan show with Emcee Hal March, is miles ahead of its competitors both in audience popularity and in the vital area of "human interest." Currently, the show is starring Mabel Morris, an aged (she admits to 75), sassy Dickensian expert who has intelligence, impressive knowledge of her special field, and a fetching voice quaver not unlike that of Ed Wynn. Newspaper reporters last week helped along the show's publicity by revealing that Mabel is on relief in Manhattan and that some $6,000 of her winnings will have to go toward clearing up her indebtedness...