Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...according to L. (for Leonard) Ewing Scott, his wife Evelyn sent him to a drugstore to buy her some tooth powder. When he got back to their $75,000 house in west Los Angeles' expensive Bel Air section, she had vanished, leaving behind no note, no indication of where she had gone...
...that the U.S. was a success. With few such perceptive quips but a relentless, mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly scoffed at the U.S. in the '30s and '40s as a house of cards, now treats it as a house of worship...
...long ago, NBC's Steve Allen scribbled a note to ABC's top Cowpoke James (Maverick) Garner, 29. "Somebody told me you carry a .45. and I got pretty scared. I thought it was your rating." It darn near was. Maverick Garner was giving Allen and his fellow TV Titan Ed Sullivan plenty to worry about on the Sunday-at-8 spot. Last week, for the fifth time. Maverick (7:30 to 8:30) outrode both of them in the Trendex derby-for what that is worth (and to TV and ad moguls it still seems...
...attention to detail almost resulted in tragedy. When Actor Theodore Tenley (as Dr. Dodd) was "hanged," he actually blacked out on camera from what doctors said might have been "a psychological reaction to overrealistic acting." But Tenley so admired Ustinov's strikingly original portrayal that he sent a note saying, "I'd be glad to be hanged again," to which Ustinov replied: "Sir, I believe that for the crime of playing with Ustinov, the death penalty would be too severe. But I shall include in my Dictionary the definition of the word Dodd...
...morgue. Among them was one that had never been printed. When longtime Reporter (and sometime night city editor) Limpus died of a heart ailment last week at 60, the city desk pulled it out of the files. It was Limpus' obit, and at the top was a note: "Do me one final favor and use this instead of an effusion by somebody else...