Word: milton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris reporter asked TV-Comedian Milton Berle how he felt about the Bishop Fulton Sheen program which is on a competing channel with his own show. Said Berle: "We're known as Uncle Miltie and Uncle Fultie now. It doesn't make any difference if we're in competition. It's a pleasure to have him opposite me. After all, we're both using old material...
...experts figure a money-raising telethon is rousingly successful if it realizes 50% of its pledges. Martin & Lewis, appearing for the New York Cardiac Hospital, took in $1,000,000 in pledges, finally got $420,000; Milton Berle's fourth Damon Runyon Memorial Fund telethon last month has so far collected $210,000 from a promised...
...Mathias totaled 7,825 points (under a new decathlon scoring system), 382 more than his 1950 world record and 770 more than Runner-Up Milton Campbell, an 18-year-old Plainfield, N.J. high-school student.* The victory made Mathias, who did not defend his title last year, the first man in U.S. decathlon history ever to win the event four times...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...with TV Veteran Bob Hope on an all-night show to raise the $500,000 still needed to send the U.S. Olympic team to this summer's games at Helsinki, Finland. Conceived by Sport Writer Vincent Flaherty of the Los Angeles Examiner, and obviously patterned after the annual Milton Berle TV marathon for the Cancer Fund, the Hope & Crosby show was a mixture of guest stars (Ezio Pinza, Phil Harris, Martin & Lewis), appeals for money, and the reading of interminable lists of contributors...