Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filmed Mickey Rooney Show, Hollywood's final dramatic effort of the week, Mickey plays a stagestruck network page boy who has no chance in TV because "he's too small to be a wrestler and too big for a puppet." Mickey comes equipped with parents (Regis Toomey and Claire Carleton), a sweetheart three inches taller than he is (Carla Balenda) and a shady dramatic coach (Alan Mowbray). Fast-moving and full of bounce, the Mickey Rooney Show is aimed at the large audience that already likes Our Miss Brooks, I Married Joan, Topper and My Little Margie...
...Phibun set up Thailand's popular constitutional monarchy. He was named rector of Bangkok's respected University of Moral and Political Sciences. During World War II, Pridi led Thailand's underground resistance against the Japanese while Phibun was comfortably presiding over his country's Japanese puppet government (which declared...
...anguished peace," said General Paul Ely, commander of the French. "There can be no real peace without the unity of our country," cried General Nguyen Van Hinh, leader of the Vietnamese. The Viet Minh coldly warned that "remnants of the French and puppet armies still in hiding . . . must present themselves before the People's Administration." North Viet Nam was about to retire behind the Iron Curtain; the South would remain beleaguered...
Next day Chou paid gracious tribute-via the British Broadcasting Corp.-to the peace-loving people of Britain. He took off for a state visit to East Berlin, where puppet Red Premier Otto Grotewohl paid unctuous homage: "No power on earth can settle international problems without consulting the Great People's Republic of China." Chou took Grotewohl at his word; he surveyed one of Grotewohl's -and Russia's trickiest unresolved problems, then observed: "Geneva . . . will favorably influence the reunification of Germany...
...Chinese are getting the scraps of political influence in the new Red colony. Of North Korea's top four ministers, three are Soviet citizens, while the fourth, Premier Kim II Sung, is a Russian puppet of long standing. Of the seven Deputy Premiers, six belong to the Russian-controlled "Soviet faction," while only one pays allegiance to the "Yenan faction," as the Red China side is called. Of the 15-man Presidium, ten members are "Soviets" against only two "Yenans" and three local North Korean Reds. Even culturally, the Chinese are in eclipse (Pyongyang high-school students have...