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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past. Captain Kangaroo has cost CBS more than $1,500,000 a year; but the wigged, whiskered, grandfatherly old party with his big, pouchy pockets and perky hats is far and away the best in the often over-cute field of children's TV. His real name is Bob Keeshan, and his secret is that he talks softly to the kids, tells them what makes the world tick, with the same fizzless, unexcited manner that NBC's Dave Garroway uses on their parents. (In the same time slot. Kangaroo consistently matches or beats Garroway in the Nielsen ratings...
Critics occasionally object to Clemens' odd recipes (he once prepared an omelet from an ostrich egg), and often accuse him of what they consider heinous culinary sins: he has been known to dip breaded cutlets in gravy (making a soggy crust), mix fresh cream with Madeira (which makes the cream run), and boil beef after searing it in a pan (making the meat tough). But Der Fernsehkoch has a ready answer: "As an actor, I know what goes over...
...week to the warm, simple and true pictures of the world's most distinguished woman painter, Dame Laura Knight. To a few, the pictures' heartfelt realism had that musty look of the faraway and long ago; visitors were hard put to assess them by contemporary-and so often geometric -standards. One critic noted that Dame Laura painted like a man. Said she in London when she heard of it, "What man?" Another called her a "popular painter," which roused her British ire the more: "Don't call me popular. I paint what...
...clown to Mrs. Bing Crosby on a flying trapeze-and backs them up with everything from lion tamers and wire walkers to the Ronnie Lewis Trio, the Flying Alexanders, and Hugo Zacchini. the Human Cannon Ball. But as Ringmaster Vincent Price calls off act after act, The Big Circus often looks like a gaudily colored CinemaScope production of the Ed Sullivan Show...
...ruled his charges with a celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...