Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local TV program last spring. NBC and Producer Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen and Sam Levenson join Fadiman for the kind of lively gab that has not been heard on radio since the old days of Information Please. Item: Punster Cerf's line about Ireland's Poet George ("A E") Russell and an angry moment when "A E's Irish rose." The next...
...piece of ebony sculpture. But the rest of his body is stunted and crippled; his reedy heron's legs are too frail to carry him, and he can use only two fingers at the end of his wizened right arm. When Africa was darkest, such human culls as Sam Songo were staked out for the leopards to rid them from the tribe. But Sam was allowed to live and to learn to carve living figures in stone with those two fingers and his good left...
...government school inspector brought him from his farming village to grizzled Canon Edward Paterson, an artist-priest who founded Cyrene in 1940. He was a half-starved boy in grey rags, and so helpless that he had to be wheeled to classes in an old baby carriage. But Sam, who showed surprising aptitude for drawing, soon told the canon: "I can carve." Paterson wisely refrained from giving the crippled young Negro any formal art training. "What I tried to do," said Paterson, "was let him express what was in his eyes and mind...
Priceless Reward. Songo's carvings and paintings, sold to tourists who came to visit the school, eventually earned $100 -enough. Sam thought, to buy a wheelchair. Paterson did not have the heart to tell him that the chair, delivered in Africa, would cost more than $200; instead, he appealed to national-sweepstakes officials for the rest of the money. Now Sam cheerfully rolls himself around his work as he carves...
...hour later Buffett filed an appeal with the State Supreme Court, left the G.O.P. thoroughly confused. Meanwhile, Republican Governor Robert B. Crosby broke tradition by naming an interim replacement for Butler (to serve until November) even before the Senator's funeral could be held. His choice: Republican Sam Reynolds, Omaha coal dealer...