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Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Ezio Pinza and Milton Berle...
...this country," he ad-libbed solemnly, "not only the one which we all fear the most, but there are some weapons which are fantastic in their operation." Most of Washington regarded this as just another Truman ad-liberty, but one reporter dug up North Dakota's garrulous Milton Young, a member of the Senate committee which had been considering the $5 billion, and asked him to comment...
...Jazz Clarinetist Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrovv also crossed the line from white to black. Arrested by New York police for marijuana peddling, Mezzrow, whose parents were Russian Jews, asked to be confined with Negro inmates on Riker's Island. Later he wrote: "Some of the finest, most high-spirited guys of the [Negro] race landed in jail because of their conditions of life . . . I made up my mind to do something drastic. Just as we were having our pictures took for the rogues' gallery, along came Mr. Slattery, the deputy . . . 'Mr. Slattery,' I said...
...think of themselves as the first Protestants, were followers of a French merchant named Peter Waldo. They publicly objected to papal pomp and corruption, and in the 13th Century were driven into the hills, where they managed to survive despite sporadic attempts to exterminate them. One massacre inspired Milton to write his famed sonnet...
...Mack (The Original Amateur Hour) "In contrast to Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, and Bert Parks . . . he is an eminently serious person who communicates to the audience a feeling of the importance, usefulness and rightness of his program. Respondents' references to him are quite reminiscent of the things they might say of an ideal arbiter, coach, Scout leader or father...