Word: mon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). In all the years, the Goldbergs have never managed to climb out of their Bronx tenement at 1038 East Tremont Avenue (in real life, 1038 is a street intersection). The Goldbergs have never made Park Avenue. But their creator, plump, 50-year-old Gertrude Berg...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Bing Crosby in The Emperor Waltz...
...magnificent. It was in a meadow. The first thing I did was deflate the bag, wrap it up and go for help. Then I discovered that my landing place [Orfordness, near Ipswich] was a desert. I stumbled into bogs, fell into brambles, sprained my ankle in a slough. 'Mon Dieu' I said to myself, 'have they ceased to be watchful along their coasts, these British?' Finally I found a house. The people took me to a post office. There was a pretty little clerk there and she made two telephone calls-one to the police...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). The Rival Dummy, with Paul Lukas...
Thus, for the 2,462nd time, Portia Faces Life (Mon. through Fri., 5:15 p.m. E.D.T., NBC) brings to its avid listeners the innermost thoughts and self-sacrificial impulses of its heroine. Considerably less bemused at Portia's unflagging nobility is her creator; in fact, tall, tense Mona Kent, writer of Portia Faces Life, is betraying her stainless heroine for the first time. In a novel to be published next week (Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; Rinehart; $3), Scripter Kent tells the story of "a girl who wrote soap operas and tried to live her life according...