Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of all this to-do is Milton Berle, a jack-of-all-turns vaudeville comic who has gone into television and won a bright new feather for his very old hat. In a space of eight months, Berle's Texaco Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) has made him the undisputed No. 1 performer on U.S. TV. His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven...
Mama Says So. Berle's success on television is a curious byproduct of repeated flops in both radio and movies-a special irony for pushy Milton Berle, who has lived his life to feed what he calls "my great want to conquer." The flops hurt deeply and worried him about his appeal to a mass audience. But they forced him into well-paid jobs in nightclubs, where live audiences kept his talents supple. Meanwhile, more successful comedians were falling into the lazier habit of peering at scripts through spectacles...
...great want to conquer" began to gnaw Milton Berlinger no more than five years after he was born in 1908 in a Harlem tenement. He was the fourth of five children of the late Moe Berlinger, a quiet, sickly shopkeeper, and his vigorous, iron-willed wife Sarah (now Sandra). The great want sprang first in young Milton's mother, who helped earn the family living as a store detective. One day she borrowed 20? carfare to take the five-year-old boy to an amateur contest after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton...
...this razzle-dazzle fashion, American Safety Razor Corp.'s showman President Milton Dammann introduced a smooth-shaving new razor blade called Silver Star, made of a new metal called "Duridium" (a hard-alloy steel). With it, Dammann was out to crowd Gillette's famed Blue Blade out of the No. 1 spot in the blade market. Dammann planned to spend $2,000,000 on the promotion campaign because his company needed that kind of boost. In this year's first quarter its profits had dropped from...
According to Corey Wynn, the coach of the freshmen tennis team, the match against Exeter this afternoon will be the hardest one his charges have faced so far. The yardling squad this season has defeated Milton Academy, the Boston University freshmen, and Deerfield Academy...