Word: snowman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week's show was another melange, at once funnier and tamer than the first. Freberg's interview with an Abominable Snowman ("I'm 10½ ft. tall, but you should see my brother! He jumped center for Abominable State") had a deadpan quality equal to the best of Bob and Ray; he slipped a little in a talk with a sculptress, recovered nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara...
...Star, he takes his orders from the city desk, and whenever he runs out of assignments and returns to Toronto, he is routinely assigned to the 7 a.m. rewrite shift to work on obits. To avoid this, he thinks up his own assignments, e.g., hunting the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, when the foreign front is relatively quiet...
Biggest Puzzle. Patrick is a kind of dilettante snowman, "detached to the point of selfishness in his chosen serenity . . . his violin-playing, his botany, his photography, his collection of Cretan ikous." Corfu thaws him out-first with a throb of color from its sapphire sea and sky, orange groves and olive trees, then with the pastoral charm of tinkling goat bells and squat white stone houses, and finally with its people, who teach him a language of the heart that is puzzlingly Greek to him. Biggest puzzle of all is his Venus de Miloesque wife Iris, who plunges into...
...Case of the Abominable Snowman...
...TIME, Jan. 23, you show a picture of footprints (or pawprints) of a "traveling snowman." Obviously, those prints were made by a three-legged fellow (probably a fuzzy, furry type) who was turning cartwheels. Let's not worry about him ; he's having...