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Word: milton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and eventually became president. He met and married one of Chicago's most attractive debutantes, petite and spirited Ellen Borden, of the milk family. They have three sons, Adlai, 21, and Borden, 19, students at Harvard, and John Fell, 15, at Milton Academy, Milton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Sir Galahad & the Pols | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...other Eisenhower brothers: Arthur, a Kansas City banker; Milton, president of Pennsylvania State College; and Earl, an electrical engineer in Charleroi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sorrowful Brother | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Comic Charlie Chester, who describes himself as a "British Milton Berle, only with a heart," is the man who was persuasive enough to sell sobersided BBC on doing the show. His only regret: that BBC is still too finicky to let him use announcers who will lose their pants during warmup time. Still breathless over its daring, BBC is also keeping a cautious eye on the show's budget. Warned a spokesman: "The gifts will be strictly limited in cost - no big-money American stuff here. We don't want to buy viewers." There seemed little danger. Groused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: British Giveaway | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Milton Berle, back from vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Getting culture into the Milton Berle show might have daunted even hardier men than NBC's executives. It was accomplished by having Milton go offstage while Vice President Alben Barkley came on, to talk about Abraham Lincoln. Howdy Doody was swung into line with a children's newsreel, and The Aldrich Family contributed its mite by devoting one show to a discussion of the basic types of English sentence structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Operation Frontal Lobes | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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