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Word: showings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed to try some tougher ones. "It was a mistake," he recalls. "We had the dullest show in the world. The minute you have anything harder than a subject, predicate and question mark, they can't answer them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...camera, because "if I'm having fun I ain't looking anywhere." Program suggestions from his sponsor (Ford Dealers) and TV Director Earl Ebi are welcome so long as they do not violate the College's basic Simple-Simon format. Remembering the one disastrous show that resulted when he took his wife's advice, Kyser says firmly: "It's only when you try to get too professional and want to class it up that you fall flat on your face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week, gleaming with fuchsia and olive-green paint, station KOTV held its grand opening. Swarms of prominent Tulsans were disappointed when the Hollywood stars who had been announced failed to show up. But beauty was well represented by Tulsa-born Singer Patti Page, who arrived in a Cadillac, mink and diamonds; and by Helen Maria Alvarez herself who, though too busy to buy a new costume, looked more than satisfactory in a three-year-old lace dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Manhattan's bustling little City Opera Co. (TIME, Nov. 3, 1947 et seq.) proved it knew how to give the classics a new shine. Last week it was the turn of City Opera's bright young sister outfit, the City Ballet Co., to show it could do the same with the dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Wings for Firebird | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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