Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits Bette Davis, Bob Considine...
...slick program opener: a film clip of the famed Joe Smith incident at the Republican Convention (TIME. Sept. 3), followed by the filmed excerpt of Stevenson's postnomination speech calling for an open race for the vice-presidential nomination. Later, straining to put himself across in person, Adlai threw a wild punch when he declared that "the President is not master in his own house," implied that the country was being run by Richard Nixon and the Eisenhower Cabinet. Only when he strayed onto subjects dealing with his own political idealism did Stevenson sound like himself. "Our plan...
...incident which occurred at a small bridge party she gave about twelve years ago." Another account told of reports that letters written by relatives to aging women were sometimes withheld from them-without saying who might have withheld them. Still another blind story said: "The name of a person in whom the police are particularly interested was found to have occurred in at least four wills . . ." Elsewhere appeared sinister suggestions of a hypnotic, "evil-eye killer...
...last week were more improbable, in spots, than anything in the fictional dramas. Frank Sinatra's new Coldwater Canyon, Calif, home was invaded by an army of Ed Murrow's electronic gremlins only two hours after Frankie had moved in. Kicking off his fourth season on Person to Person (CBS), Murrow positioned his cameras in every cranny of Sinatra's two-bedroom Japanese house, with its elaborate hi-fi gadgets, Bing Crosby recordings, a TV set that swings out of its niche to front any chair in the room, and a huge kitchen, chock-full of pizzas...
...Eastern countries goods are still short, and the average worker must spend all or most of his wages just to feed himself, his wife and two children. ECE calculated that a monthly breadbasket, including just 4 Ibs. of meat. 3.3 Ibs. of butter and lard and 9 eggs per person, would cost 110% of the average worker's income in Rumania, 105% in Bulgaria, 95% in Poland, 93% in Hungary, 88% in the U.S.S.R., 77% in Czechoslovakia, 72% in East Germany. Concluded ECE: "The rate of increase [in personal consumption] has lagged behind popular expectations in some countries, notably...