Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comedian Berle, for his return (NBC), renounced his former control over lighting, staging, dance arrangements and sets. During rehearsals, Miltie restricted himself to learning his routines and yelling at the piano player. Perhaps for this reason, on his opening show, he was little more than a carpenter's assistant to the wild house wrecker he once was. His one-minute exchange with Guest Bob Hope was mildly funny, his opening monologue even milder, and his dance routine was just routine. Many viewers will be happy that he is trying to get his laughs standing up instead of falling down...
...toughening attitude of management in union bargaining, which showed up in the U.A.W.-automakers talks, was demonstrated again last week by General Electric. After seven weeks of bargaining with James Carey's International Union of Electrical Workers, G.E. walked out of the meetings vowing not to return...
What Now? At 19 Tanguy still cherished the image of a kind of prodigal son's return. But when he finally found his father in Paris, the boy was coldly rebuffed. Tanguy's mother, who also turned up in Paris, had equally little use for him. She was still a left-winger, lost in the intellectual Minotaur's cave of the '30s. At novel's end, with a wistful touch of Chaplinesque pathos, the 25-year-old Del Castillo, currently living in Paris, asks, "What is to become of Tanguy now?" and offers the shadow...
...lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside could talk or dream of little except the Klondike. Preachers, policemen, doctors quit their callings and headed for the bitter North. The mayor of Seattle, in San Francisco for a convention, "did not bother to return home, but wired his resignation." From New York came 500 women, mostly widows, by steamer around the Horn. After a fearsome journey, they reached Seattle broke, their hopes of marrying sourdough millionaires shattered...
...military spokesman said that an airborne battle group of the 24th Division continued its return to Germany by air. An advance party of the group returned to Germany Thursday...