Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch U.N. representatives at work on a grave international problem. If the members of that "peace-loving audience" of popular programs truly cared to preserve the pleasant status quo of their lives, they would do well to pay less attention to the meaningless escapism of Dotto, Play Your Hunch and For Love or Money...
Autemotion. In Lisbon, visitors at the Portuguese Industrial Fair could play ticktacktoe with an electronic machine that cackles mockingly when it wins and snarls menacingly when it loses...
Deus ex Machina. His wartime success got Jack a job in Hollywood shortly after he came home. RKO and later 20th Century-Fox put him under contract but rarely got around to putting him in front of a camera (he did once play opposite an unheard-of starlet named Marilyn Monroe). In 1947 he was hired as the summer replacement on NBC-Radio's Jack Benny Show. His fresh, natural style was a success, and in the fall American Tobacco put the Jack Paar Show on the air on ABC. It lasted until Christmas Eve. In his radio days...
...laughs all right but that he had no character, like Benny's "cheapness," Gracie Allen's "dumbness." "There is nothing to tune back to each week," reported Walker, and the Paar option was dropped. Today, says Jack, he is just as glad that he did not play along with the phony character bit: "I have no character except what I am-complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable and lonely...
Lately Saigon newspapers, alarmed at the rot mortality rate, have urged parents to drive their children less harshly, play down the necessity of remaining daus. Educators argue that much of the blame for failures must be laid to crowded classrooms and ill-educated teachers. Happily for future rots, the government is planning alternatives to suicide: vocational schools and schools for social service...