Word: martha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...established companies as Jerry Fairbanks, Inc., which employs a timesaving three-camera technique (TIME, March 6, 1950). Broidy Productions (owned by a brother of the head of Monogram Pictures) makes Wild Bill Hickok films for TV, and turns out a 30-minute religious show with such titles as Sister Martha Bets 'Em Big. Bing Crosby Enterprises hopes to captivate televiewers with a new series featuring a cast of chimpanzees enacting Sherlock Holmes thrillers...
...keep the red tape down in this office," says Mrs. Martha P. Robinson of the History-Government-Economics tutorial board, "but a lot of the boys don't think I do." This department handles 1/2 of the College enrollment; Mrs. Robinson contends "you can't help having forms with our numbers." During the fall she assigns advisees, makes up lists of tutors, and organizes Government 1 and Economics...
...that was missing was scenery. But an excellent cast, with John (Fledermaus) Brownlee as Harlequin, Soprano Martha Lipton as his wife, and Bass-Baritone James Pease as the priest, just about made up for that...
Keep Posted (Tues. 8:30 p.m., Du Mont) is also challenging Milton Berle, but with more adult fare than Sinatra. A 30-minute panel show intended to help televiewers "think clearly," Keep Posted is produced by two TV veterans, Lawrence Spivak and Martha Rountree (Meet the Press). The opening show, trying to decide "What's Next in China?", was something of a fizzle because of a last-minute cancellation by Henry Wallace, subpoenaed by a congressional committee intent on the same question...
...says; "it depends on who I'm writing for." He has written for many people, having composed music for the radio, schools, the theatre, and motion pictures, as well as for the more restricted audience of the concert hall. The Pulitzer Prize winning "Appalachian Spring," written in 1944 for Martha Graham, was in line with his theory of "music...