Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gymnasium of Washington's Georgetown University for an evening of political calisthenics, fried chicken and speechmaking. Outshining such professional entertainers as Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, who emceed the show, and ex-Pug Buddy Boer, who crooned: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey, who posed in an Uncle Sam hat, with an "I Like Ike" button on his lapel, a raddled drumstick in hand and a campaign gleam...
...bombs have produced more whistle than blast. Among them (on radio): a weekly children's newscast by H. V. Kaltenborn ("Good morning! Last week two bad men tried to kill the President of the United States . . ."); short disk-jockey stints by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney and Arthur Treacher; programs by Poet Carl Sandburg (folk songs), Eleanor Roosevelt (interviews), baseball's Jackie Robinson (children's disk-jockey quiz). Of these, Robinson and an all-night recorded symphonic series -which started only last week-are the only two still carrying...
...Time Goes By"--and Sam the piano player who plays it. It has fog and narrow streets, and agents grinding around those narrow streets in battered open cars. It has Bogart, still remarkable when he palms a cigarette, and Bergman, equally remarkable when she does nothing at all. It is the granddaddy of a long line of similar coat-collar-up in the rain movies, many with the same people, many with better plots. It can still hold its head up with its offspring...
...painter and, at 60, still an avid outdoorsman (formerly football, track and cricket, now mostly shooting, skiing and fishing). He was born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the third son of the Fourth Earl of Caledon. After Harrow and Sandhurst, he wore "the brightest Sam Browne and boots in the British army," fought in World War I, served in India between the wars...
Guests of the House. In Beverly Hills, Calif., the Beverly Hills Hotel filed suit against Mr. & Mrs. Sam Genis for $50,000, moved to evict them from their $1,375-a-month suite, charged that the couple