Word: showing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Journey to Understanding (NBC, about midnight). Part of The Jack Paar Show will be pre-empted so viewers can hear the parting words of President Eisenhower as he begins his tour...
...Show of the Month...
...mere limits of natural food. General Foods' Tang is a completely artificial product created in the laboratory. Scientists have already isolated 30 volatile elements in coffee, some day may be able to produce artificial coffee that tastes just as good as the real thing. Charlie Mortimer, a "show me" man, admits that there are some practical limits to the revolution in the kitchen. Says he: "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have all the nutrients of a steak. I want my steak." But if the public showed a need for Glatsky...
...1930s, Eaton's vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Irving Thalberg, Marie Dressier, Flo Ziegfeld are buried in Forest Lawn. Many found that the 100.000 shrubs provided plenty of quiet places to neck in. Eaton encouraged them all, and reached them all with the Forest Lawn message: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management...
...ghost-particularly among haunted show-business autobiographers-Dancer Katherine Dunham's decision to do her own writing is something of a breach of convention. Even more remarkably, she writes with skill and taste, and has made her personal history reflective rather than regurgitative...