Word: milled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90, U.S. TV's biggest drama mill (Dec. 20. 9:30 p.m., CBS), offers free-lancing Nanette Fabray and Lew Ayres in The Family Nobody Wanted, the true story of a preacher who adopted twelve orphans, each from a different country...
...composer of these lines for the Hasty Pudding Show, "The Fattest Calf," given 41 years ago, was not destined to be a run of the mill Tin Pan Alley hack; in fact, these were probably the last musical lyrics he ever wrote...
...comes down to tell the village that it will be raided as soon as the rice is cut. But one man, Rikichi (Yoshio Tsuchiya), whose wife was carried off in the last raid, does not wail; he resolves to fight. And the wise old man who lives in the mill reveals to the vil lagers a way to fight: hire soldiers to fight for you. But how can poor farmers possibly afford to pay soldiers? Let them be hungry soldiers, the sage explains, and pay them with rice...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver last week: 14 officials and staff members of the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by obtaining the services of the National Labor Relations Board without lawfully qualifying the union for those services, i.e., some had "pretended" to resign from the Communist Party and had filed false non-Communist affidavits with the NLRB. Among the indicted: "Mine-Mill's'' eye-patched onetime President Maurice E. Travis. 46. already under an eight-year federal sentence (and free...
Facts Forum, the most expensive personal propaganda mill in the U.S., came to a halt last week. Launched five years ago by Dallas' Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 67, whose oil, natural-gas and farmland interests give him an income of $200,000 a day, Facts Forum billed itself as a "nonpartisan, nonpolitical educational organization." But in its monthly Facts Forum News (reported circ. 100,000), a clutter of radio and TV shows, e.g., Reporters' Roundup, Topic of the Week, and widely distributed "public-opinion" polls, Hunt's nonprofit-and tax-free-foundation promoted a far-right, McCarthyist line...