Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the results of this exhaustive reporting were finally piled on Writer McPhee's desk last week, he faced his own formidable composing task: a 61-hour, mostly sleepless writing stint. For McPhee-unlike his subjects- there could be no trial runs in Toronto or Boston. He was opening in New York, and Senior Editor Grunwald was a tough critic...
...production, with every joke clicking right into place, but also overestimates the amount of new humor that can be choked from the old contest between a scatterbrained actress and her no-nonsense sister. In last week's episode, Eileen (played by Shirley Bonne) caused Sister Ruth (Elaine Stritch) sleepless nights when she invaded the lair of a panting Broadway producer. One genuinely amusing touch: in a nightmare, Big Sister visualizes the producer's office furnished entirely with couches, and flies to the rescue as Super-Ruth. Although too much depended on the belief, no longer universally entertained, that...
...wisps of their comments to the gathering crowd below: "Say, I think it's getting colder again." Dusk of the second day found them precariously camped on a ledge 4 ft. long and 15 in. wide, wolfing down salami, boned chicken and chocolate before bracing themselves for another sleepless, terrifying night...
...control subjects, who were wakened only after dreaming, this group became irritable and upset during waking hours. Their reactions resembled those of Disk Jockey Peter Tripp during his 200-hour sleep-deprivation marathon (TIME, Feb. 9, 1959): at first easily upset, he began hallucinating on about the fourth sleepless...
...lighter than when he started, and with recurring eye trouble, Billy Graham wound up his seven-week "Safari for Souls" last week, still going at a pace that often left his followers limp. His only major difficulty was insomnia, and he remarked that he spent most of his sleepless hours in prayer: "I figure God had some reason for keeping me awake...