Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick was a jazz pianist in Rio. One night his mother heard him sing. "Get lost with the piano," she advised him. So, says Dick, "I became the Beeng of Braseel." From Rio to the Milton Berle show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC) was an easy jump...
...boys ' he says. 'Isn't it beautiful?' And he proceeds to quack or mouth or bleat out something which is a travesty of the beauty which has truly moved him. ... He is addicted to giving classes poems to learn by heart . . . I was put off Milton for years by a fool who made me learn the sonnet On His Blindness when I was eleven...
Actress Joyce Mathews, whose first husband was a son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente ("Tyrant of the Andes") Gómez, said she was now going to divorce Comedian Milton Berle. She added sweetly that he was "a swell person and a great artist" anyway...
...editors of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, the six-month trial run of Steve Canyon had been quite a trial. Steve had been a problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed...
Last week, twelve years after Wiley Post had crashed to his death with Will Rogers in Alaska, Bill Odom, now a lean, balding 27, made good. Alone in Penmaker Milton Reynold's Bombshell, he circled the globe between Thursday and Sunday...