Word: mikes
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...weigh carefully" any Indian loan: "Her foreign policy is of course her own business. But, it seems to me, America's helping hand ought to be extended to nations which share our goals." Countered one of the Democrats' leading lights on foreign affairs, Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield: "I believe that underneath this neutralism, India would, if the chips were down, be on the side of the West. Our faith in India's future may well be the decisive factor in the race between Communist China and India." In New Delhi a U.S. official summed...
There were, of course, threatening calls charging Du Mont with being "anti-union." The Transport Workers' brogue-nurturing Boss Mike Quill, appearing on Wendy Barrie's show over Du Mont's Manhattan WABD, took the opportunity to lambast Du Mont because "they showed unions in an unfavorable light." Indeed, the three inquisitive cameras played so deftly and pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along...
...links. Shakespeare Scholar Frank Baxter will bring his relentless cheer to a new cycle of Telephone Time playlets, and Voice of Firestone will enter its 30th year on the air. Most of the hardy favorites will stay on: Mickey Mouse Club, Wyatt Earp, Ozzie & Harriet, Lawrence Welk, Mike Wallace, Disneyland. To help pull out all these new stops, fledgling ABC has sunk $30 million into a new Hollywood TV center. By the beginning of 1958 the chain will have added ten new affiliates, thus strongly affecting the season's rating picture...
...turns in the most realistic performance of her career. The other major characters also rise to true book size. As Robert Cohn, the unwanted, brooding Jew, Mel Ferrer is especially convincing. The fascinating quintet converging on Pamplona for the fiesta is rounded out by Errol Flynn (wonderful as boozy Mike Campbell, the happy-went-lucky bankrupt) and Eddie Albert (as Bill Gorton, everybody...
Back home the misguided tour stirred up most editorialists and most vocal politicos. "They have played into the hands of the Kremlin propagandists," said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "They have fallen for a come-on gimmick," added Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield. "My remedy," Vermont's liberal Republican Senator George D. Aiken summed up, "would be a good spanking for every one of them...