Word: milton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about his general tastes. "Sheen said he gave the New York Times a five-minute scanning every day for foreign news, was repelled by politics and could never become interested in it ... Sheen has not seen a movie for eight years, cares little for drama, but relishes comedians like Milton Berle [who calls Sheen "Uncle Fultie"]. Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx are eminent in Sheen's hierarchy of devils. Sheen remarked that, 'I have read every single line that Karl Marx ever wrote. I took a year off to study him.' His discourse on Marx and Communism...
...LAST HUNT, by Milton Loft (399 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.95) is the story of the age of slaughter when, in the space of 20 years, the hide hunters wiped the buffalo herds from the face of the West. From Texas to Idaho they left "nothin but bones layin white in the sun like an alkali flat . . . and the wagon wheels breakin em like sticks." Milton Lott. 35-year-old millwright who got a Houghton Mifflin fellowship for this first novel, was born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless...
...avoid noise-and enmity-the Air Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...
...With his own Caesar's Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC), Sid began with a fine skit in a cafeteria, went on to a funny getting-dressed scene. But when Guest Star Gina Lollobrigida showed up, he switched from well-paced pantomime to goo-goo-eyed mugging that suggested Milton Berle...
...Cornell professor, Milton Konvitz of the Industrial and Labor Relations School has written pungently on the subject. His statement deserves quotation at some length...