Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the filmed series 13 weeks before as Lassie's new chum Timmy; this week's episode introduced Timmy's foster parents (Cloris Leachman and Jon Shepodd) for the first time. Gone after three years was Lassie's old playmate Jeff (Tommy Rettig), who in reel life had to go off to high school, but in real life had outgrown the part (hair on the chest is permissible for a collie, but not a collie's young pal). With him went widowed Mom (Jan Clayton), who told viewers she had to move...
...circ. 2,083,972), richer, lustier New York Daily News, Hearst's New York Mirror (circ. 876,938) loves boys and girls. In what he called a "partial listing," Mirror Publisher Charles B. McCabe took a full-page ad in the rival New York Times last week to reel off some of the activities that engage the Mirror when it is not looking for news: art in the public schools, basketball tournaments, Boy Scout awards, Children's Day, Christmas carol singing, folk-dance festival, golf tournament, handball tournament, high-school concert, horseshoe-pitching contest, junior archery meet, junior...
...thing he loves, etc., replete with much fondling and other fine Gallic touches. Of course the "unhappy ending" has become stock too, with the usual frustrations, murders, and general cataclysm. The plot is so implausible that the outcome seems apparent before this charming idyll has ground through the first reel...
...Honey ..." Waldron still spins such platters as Bebop Baby and Black Slacks, still chatters on about his sponsor's solid products, still gives the latest news bulletins every half-hour. But in between, he must find out whom Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice married, define "scyphus," reel off the precautions that should be taken when making an atomic reactor or ponder such posers as how fast a snowball of a given diameter must go to melt on impact with a wall of a given temperature. Though he sometimes postpones the more difficult questions, he usually finds something...
...North Beach," he confided, "has become what Greenwich Village never was. North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...