Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-room cabin clinging to the side of Powell Mountain in Cracker's Neck, Va., Bessie Dickenson sat at her quilting one night last week while her husband, Van Buren ("Dave") Dickenson, gaunt and sick at 72, listened to the radio. Suddenly Dave called out: "Bessie, listen to this. It says one of those boys has changed his mind and is coming home. I just know it's Ed." Said Bessie: "I just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing...
Opera Theater (Sat. 5:30 p.m., NBC). A one-hour colorcast of Carmen shown in "high-definition" black & white on standard sets...
...Star Revue (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Starring Martha Raye, Rocky Graziano and the Gabor sisters...
Football Roundup (Sat. 2 p.m., CBS). Games from all over, with Red Barber...
...Einem's score, for all its effective orchestration, had more barking sound effects than flowing music; much of Joseph K.'s music was recitation on a single note. While The Trial went on, the audience sat intent and silent. But at the end the applause was thin. Most of it went to Tenor John Druary for his two hours of almost continuous singing in the difficult lead, and to Phyllis Curtin for her beautiful soprano and her coquetry in the parts of the opera's three erotic women...