Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particular notion that young John would ever amount to so much. To them he was just the painfully bashful Dewey boy who delivered papers after school. His father, the proprietor of a grocery store ("Hams & cigars: smoked and unsmoked"), was a courtly man with a flowing beard, who quoted Milton and Robert Burns, and told of bullets whistling through his hair during the Civil War ("I always thought that that was how he got bald," says Dewey...
James Curtis Hepburn of Milton, Pa. disappointed his parents by not becoming a minister. Instead, he studied medicine and got an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. But after three years of private practice, he decided to become a missionary. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him and his young wife to China. A few years later malaria forced them to return, and Dr. Hepburn settled down to 13 years of practice in New York City...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Milton Katims directs the world premiere of Don Gillis' Symphony...
...desire to settle old scores gave a crusading fervor last week to the first Ed Wynn Show (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). With blood in his eye, veteran Comic Wynn was out to challenge the TV popularity of brash Milton Berle. Wynn's feelings for Berle, whom he can scarcely bring himself to mention by name, range from lofty superiority ("I've yet to see something original from that man") to pitying scorn ("He'll be the D.W. Griffith of TV-nobody will give him a job in a couple of years...
...shown to the rest of the country. It seemed unlikely that Eastern critics would duplicate the West Coast raves ("The ultimate in TV comedy," cried the Los Angeles Mirror). Variety complained of Wynn's "vintage jokes and facial contortions," and commented acidly: "If he was trying to imitate Milton Berle he outdid him by staying in camera range longer...