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...Trapped. Bolger has a pleasant mishmash of old favorites (The Old Soft Shoe, Window Dresser Goes to Bed) and some skittish originals stored up in his dancing pumps, and is not worried about burning up material-the perennial worry of TV comics. "I'm mostly concerned about my own personality running out," he says. "These TV shows whirl around like a revolving door. You have to watch out you don't get trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rubberlegs | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Cole Porter's 40 years in show business. Though pure off-Broadway Porter, You're the Top was breezy, beautiful, and one of the biggest-budgeted ($250,000) live shows in TV history. A baker's dozen of high-priced Hollywood musical stylists served up a mishmash of 24 musical numbers, stylishly staged by Broadway Choreographer Robert (Pal Joey) Alton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Desirable Dames. What Bride's viewers see is a mishmash of kittenish domestic humor. Spring Byington lives with her daughter and son-in-law (Frances Rafferty and Dean Miller); a next-door neighbor, Pete Porter, adds a welcome touch of acid as a wisecracking foe of mothers-in-law, and Verna Felton plays a low-comedy crony of Spring's. Verna recently had a bit part in the movie Picnic, and when the film was on location in Kansas she got more attention from the natives than all the rest of the company. Director Joshua Logan was perplexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Mother-in-Law Joke | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...word," and naming Russell the "dictator of the enterprise." Russell drafted a 1,500-word statement and sent it winging about the world for comment and signature. The world will not long remember Dictator Russell (or Sponsor Einstein) for anything that appeared in the statement, which was a dreary mishmash of gloom-laden clich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Biological Species | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...spite of the fact that the tax-exempf foundations were denied their day in court, they have nevertheless put up a strong defense against the mishmash of charges made before the Reece committee (TIME, June 21 et seq.). Both the Carnegie and the Ford Foundations have submitted sworn statements. Last week, on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board, President Dean Rusk sent in his. Among the "bizarre innuendoes" he chose to refute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Pay Our Way | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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