Word: milton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his Life Is Worth Living, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen last year proved that a religious TV show could put a dent even in Milton Berle's huge audience. Among the impressed observers was President Ross Siragusa of Admiral Corp., maker of radio and TV sets. Last week Siragusa announced that Admiral will sponsor Bishop Sheen this season on a coast-to-coast Du Mont TV network. Telecaster Sheen's fee for the season: nearly $1,000,000, to be paid to Mission Humanity, Inc. (Bishop Sheen is the national director), a voluntary agency of the United Nations...
Tracy got interested in TV 2½ years ago when he was playing in Jed Harris' Broadway production of The Traitor: "I went into '21' one night and here were all these people standing around, not even drinking, just watching Milton Berle. I decided right away that this was for me." Last May the leading role in Martin Kane, which had been successively filled by William Gargan and Lloyd Nolan, fell vacant. Says Tracy: "They opened negotiations with me and I jumped at the chance." He almost regrets that he has made a rule never to tell...
...bellhop uniform he wore on his first comedy job while he was still attending a Bronx high school. Before the surprising success of his new show, Buttons had made some eight or nine guest appearances on TV without causing any particular excitement ("My first spot was on the Milton Berle show four years ago. And now-think of it-I'm playing in competition to Berle...
Dwight Eisenhower, as the new president of Columbia University, got to know about Franklin Murphy from brother Milton Eisenhower, then president of Kansas State College. Ike liked the Kansas Plan because it started at the grass roots and demanded the participation of individual citizens. It was not long before Milton Eisenhower arranged for Murphy to meet the general; later, Murphy put his ideas on paper...
Williams became interested in the young biologists and soon Dane and Walcott were raising and photographing catepillars for the professor's projects and the Boston Museum of Science. Milton Academy provided a fully equipped laboratory where they could do dissections...