Word: schoolmarm
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...Ballou. Silkenly coiffed and carefully educated, the provocative young schoolmarm boards a train headed west to Wolf City, Wyo. To ward off thieves, gamblers and rapscallions, she seats herself across from a Bible-clutching man of the cloth. "I'm Catherine Ballou," she offers demurely...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Super-Agent Napoleon Solo needs Super-Schoolmarm June Lockhart to help him out of the clutches of Super-Enemy Ricardo Montalban...
...HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope stars as the editor of Bachelor Magazine, Eva Marie Saint as a schoolmarm bent on suppressing his publication. Color...
Inside Voice. The program has much of the iron charm of the schoolmarm: "Tony, you want to remember your Romper Room manners, honey." It also has a celebrated prop, the Do Bee and Don't Bee blackboard, with two big wooden bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little...
When she got to the White House in 1850, ex-Schoolmarm Abigail Fillmore was shocked to find not even a Bible in the place. Pausing only to put in the mansion's first bathtub, the new First Lady installed its first library. But in succeeding years, people kept pinching White House books. Herbert Hoover found the shelves bare. Booksellers chipped in to make up the loss, but Harry Truman scoffed that his own collection upstairs outnumbered the official one downstairs. The Kennedys, soon after arrival, resolved to put in "a working library for the present President...