Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Marilyn Maxwell, 32, statuesque blonde cinemactress (East of Sumatra) and nightclub singer; and Jerry Davis, 37, screen writer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...this world but be transformed." An evil aspect of peace-of-mind religion is its acceptance, by default, of the social status quo. But its greatest sin lies in using God as a means for human ends. This is blasphemous. A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked to the Man Upstairs?" In this cult religion verges on entertainment...
According to the Nielsen ratings, the nation's No. 1 TV drama show is Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Filmed in Hollywood by Screen Gems, Inc. (a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures and producer of such TV shows as Father Knows Best, Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and Captain Midnight), Ford Theater is in its third year on TV and attributes its success to 1) the use of Hollywood stars (Thomas Mitchell, Irene Dunne, William Lundigan, Ronald Reagan), 2) its technically perfect films, 3) its plots, which Screen Gems says defensively are of "more interest to audiences throughout...
...plug for Ford cars. Adman Blake Johnson of Kenyon & Eckhardt reported that the commercials, which were colorcast, cost five times more than usual and were rehearsed for three days instead of the customary few hours. Pontiac commercials concentrate on good "portrait shots" of the car while an off-screen announcer raves about "this year's sensation that thrills the nation!" Oldsmobile has produced the most eye-catching commercial: a flood of white convertibles moving smoothly along a parkway and into a cloverleaf exit. Only 40 cars are used, but skillful camera work makes it seem like hundreds...
...personality has obscured the real issue--it is over the whole direction of foreign policy. McCarthy's enemies oppose communism just as vigorously as he does, but they choose to fight it in a different way. It is time that the censure be over and the smoke-screen blown away. Another debate is needed now--one that will probe to the heart of the foreign policy problem...