Word: previewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star, supporting cast, musical soloist and partial scriptwriter of TV's memorable tour of the White House in 1952, put on another good one-man show this week on CBS's Let's Take a Trip. He was the calm and canny host for a TV preview of the $1,750,000 Harry S. Truman Library in home-town Independence...
...Reviewer Scheuer influenced by what Previewer Scheuer has written? "Well, I try to be detached," he says, "and, of course, often the preview has been written by somebody else on my staff." Even with staff help, he can claim the dubious distinction of enduring at least as much television, before and behind the screen, as anybody...
...Unwinding a kaleidoscopic, 90-minute CinemaScope preview of its coming attractions, 20th Century-Fox announced that it will soon release 55 feature movies in a twelve-month period. This splurge-raising the question of whether theater-shown films will some day antiquate much TV entertainment-will represent the biggest output of any Hollywood studio since...
Shortly before President Eisenhower took off for his flying inspection tour of the drought-parched Southwest in January, Stanley Walker, onetime Manhattan newsman, now a Texas rancher, turned out a dismal preview of the scene for his old newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune (1956 "was the year the windmills pumped air ... the termites ate the onions"). Last week Walker wrote again, this time with refreshing jubilance. Said he in the Trib: "Texas is turning green . . . like some beautiful, bewildering mirage . . . The reaction to the President's drought-study tour was friendly . . . but the comment was cautious . . . And then...
...asked: "If popish superstition and cruelty made Lisbon fall, how came Rome to stand?"). It was widely expected that London too would be shaken for its sins. Coachloads of gentry left for the country. Others, in the spirit of Mrs. Miniver, carried on. and ladies stitched "earthquake gowns" (a preview of World War II's "siren suits...