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With only two of the 13 Executive Board members still solidly behind him, it looked as if Milt Murray were well on the way out. The opposition was lining up behind closemouthed, stubborn Sam Eubanks, the Guild's executive vice president who was elected on the Murray Red-hating ticket, but fell out with Murray on administrative matters and now seldom speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thunder, Left & Right | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

With a week's outdoor practice behind it, a reshuffled Varsity tennis squad left yesterday morning for Philadelphia to tackle Penn at 3 o'clock this afternoon. To his regular singles team of Ted Backe, Max Tufts, Jim Coon, Bill Wightman, Edus Warren, Milt Heath, Steve Pratt, and Loring Briggs, coach Jack Barnaby has added Charlie Ames and Fred Ecker as alternates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Squad Travels To Philadelphia to Face Penn | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

...show, Milt claims that he has become a new man. "It's a different me," he muses, puffing a halo of cigar smoke. "I'm not the manufactured Broadway comedian any more. I'm going back, back to my real talent. I began as a dramatic actor, you know. . . . On this new show, people will get to know the real Milton Berle. The Milton at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gag Machine | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...come across on the air, it might have been partly because Milton is almost never at home. When he is, home is a $4,000-a-year duplex in Manhattan's fashionable East 80s, bric-a-brackish with so much glass in tables and on walls that Milt meets himself every time he turns around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gag Machine | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Milt got his start just a few blocks north-in Harlem. His mother, Mrs. Sandra Berlinger, a Wanamaker and Gimbels store detective, began peddling him around New York's old Biograph movie studios when he was only five. At 16, she shoved him into his first solo comedy act, planted herself in the audience and started every big laugh with a stentorian "yak" that soon became famed throughout show business. At 21, Milt was a smash hit at the Palace, rolled on to successes on Broadway. But most of all, he wowed them in nightclubs. (His latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gag Machine | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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