Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every Sunday night for seven years, Ed has formulated some definite theories. Each program must contain 1) something children will like, 2) comedy. As for the acts themselves, Ed says, "The best ones are those where two different kinds of people play against each other: if Lily Pons and Pearl Bailey do a duet, Lily sings it straight while Pearl clowns it up." His added ingredient is a shrewd combination of news and human interest. When Arthur Godfrey fired Baritone Julius La Rosa, Ed had the young singer on his show the same week ("There's nothing personal...
...combat a polio outbreak in Pearl Harbor, the Navy started inoculating some 22,000 married officers, sailors and marines and their families in the first mass Salk immunization of adults. So far, 19 people have been stricken, the majority of them with paralytic polio, and one pregnant service wife has died. Dr. Robert S. Poos, head of the Navy's Preventive Medicine Unit at Pearl Harbor, blames the outbreak on the mixing up of "new susceptibles and carriers from all over the world," wants to see the Salk vaccine made one of the compulsory shots given to servicemen...
...From Pearl Harbor to an Obsession...
Grover could now return to long distance swimming with a freer style. He had begun after he joined the Navy in 1940 in time to be aboard the battleship U.S.S. West Virginia in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Guests: Pearl Bailey, Red Skelton, Charles Laughton...