Word: monte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Goodman Ace and wife Jane brought a new version of their old Easy Aces to television (Wed. 7:45 p.m., Du Mont), complete with puns, malapropisms and humor aimed at grownups. "It's sort of a homey little thing," explained Ace. "We don't expect it to revolutionize the business...
Since the TV version of Easy Aces is a filmed "package" show, produced by the Frederic W. Ziv Co., and since several sponsors will carry the show over 40 stations of the Du Mont network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself...
...story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
Obstacle Course. In Butte, Mont., Lloyd Beach, rearrested while on a 30-day suspended sentence for vagrancy, explained to the judge that he had been trying to leave town as ordered, but there was one bar too many between him and the city limits...
...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...