Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MURRAY of our Los Angeles bureau had a few chill moments of his own before he asked Shotputter Parry O'Brien to hold still long enough for this week's cover portrait, by New Mexican Artist Peter Hurd. It was the final week of intensive training before O'Brien took off for Australia and the Olympics, and Jim knew that the big shotputter could get mad as a wet bear when anything interfered with his training. What he did not know was that O'Brien also liked to dabble with paint. "He couldn't spare...
...show is nicely cast, with Peter Palmer and Edith Adams pleasant as Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae, and Stubby Kaye and Charlotte Rae more flavorsome as Marryin' Sam and Mammy Yokum. And its best production numbers are real high points. But the distance from one high point to another is sometimes noticeably long...
Jack scampered up a tottering prefabricated beanstalk on NBC's Producer's Showcase and came home with the highest audience rating of any 90-minute show in TV history. The musical spectacle of Jack and the Beanstalk topped the two-hour reissue of Peter Pan with a 33.9 rating, attracted an estimated 55 million viewers -a 75% bigger audience than the average of all three competing CBS shows...
...coverage of the Hungarian rebellion, London's Communist Daily Worker had a rebellion on its own hands last week. Of its 30 staffers, four quit and 19 signed a petition protesting the paper's whitewash of Soviet brutality. Angriest of those who quit was its star correspondent, Peter Fryer, fresh from his assignment in Budapest itself. The others: Political Cartoonist "Gabriel" (real name: James Friell), Features Editor Malcolm MacEwan and Film Critic Patrick Goldring...
Next, the Council heard a plea from Peter W. Gross '58, who, along with several other students, had made extensive inquiries into the United Nations' agency now working for Hungarian relief. Gross pointed out that the UN money would be distributed among all the refugees, and that of all the refugees, and that of all age groups, students seemed probably best able to take care of themselves. He also observed that the name of the UN would probably attract more donations from the University at large than would the relatively unknown...