Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technical failures ran neck and neck with human errors. NBC's Chet Huntley. caught with his mike open, was overheard asking for a cup of coffee, later introduced Herbert Hoover Jr. as "Hoobert Hover"; Daly referred to "the late Senator John Sherman Cooper" (who later rose to address the convention); Elmer Peterson (NBC) reported: "Now the President's plane is landing at Los Angeles' International Airport...
...position, and Pete Everest had swiftly checked instruments, controls, oxygen. Into the mike in his mask he began to count the seconds before the drop: "Five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one. Drop me, dad!" The bomber pilot pulled a lever, and the X-2 plummeted away...
...years he has been pastor of Oklahoma City's First Christian Church, he has managed such pastoral unconventionalities as Sunday evening dances in the church recreational hall, an address to the state legislature urging repeal of liquor prohibition, a race for the U.S. Senate (against "Mike" Monroney), and a quiet domestic interchange (a campaign aide married the former Mrs. Alexander, and Pastor Bill married the ex-wife of the aide, after making the announcement of his second marriage from the pulpit...
...Amazing Dunninger (Wed. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is back again, portentously reading inner thoughts. Mike Stokey has also returned with CBS's Pantomime Quiz (Fri. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.), on which a number of celebrities appear and play charades with infantile vigor. NBC's This Is Show Business (Tues. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is a panel show that has stumbled back on the air. An entertainer appears, goes through his act, then raises a show-business question to enable the panel to display its wit or wisdom. One commentator has already suggested that the name of the show...
...frosty and imperious Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) delicately dithers over the three men in her life: her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby), an aristocratic jazz devotee who insists on calling her "Sam"; her husband-to-be, George Kittredge (John Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down to Millionaire Crosby and Reporter Sinatra. Grace gets tight and thaws visibly. She dives into a swimming pool fully clad, and is fished out by the reporter...