Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to be superhuman not to feel this way." In the third week of his 22,000-mile journey, Dwight Eisenhower indeed was having a wonderful time. In Iran, in Greece and in Tunisia, where monuments of great ancient civilizations still stand, the glowing pageant of people seemed to rush by like pages riffled in a history book...
...pageant of President Eisenhower's official tour, one American woman had a spotlight all to herself. The only trouble was that Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 33, is the kind of woman who would much prefer to avoid the spotlight. But as wife of Major John Eisenhower, daughter-in-law of the President, and (in Mamie's absence) a kind of unofficial U.S. First Lady on the trip, Barbara Eisenhower began to relax last week and have a happy time...
...Miracle (Warner), a vast $3,000,000 pseudoreligious epic, is a travesty of the solemn pageant produced in 1911 by the late Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt's drama advanced through a series of large visions of the human condition, as successively they assailed a nun who had been lured from her convent by the Prince of this World, personified in a fluting cripple. Hollywood's version translates these noble obscurities into terms that the average moviegoer will more restfully recognize-right up to the moment when he falls asleep...
...distinction unique even for a psychiatrist : over the past 30 years he has examined or treated nearly 1,000 male homosexuals. From this long and intimate professional voyage into a strange world, he has put down some surprising conclusions in a book, published last week, titled 1,000 Homosexuals (Pageant Books; $4.95). Says Psychoanalyst Bergler: ¶ The homosexual is a glutton for punishment and is surely unhappy-consciously or unconsciously...
Miss America Pageant (CBS, 10-12 p.m.). For all those who can stand it once more, the bathing beauties will go through the fiction that they also have other massive talents. Cliff ("Charlie Weaver") Arquette as Grand Marshal may make it all worthwhile...