Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, Flight Instructor Gobel spent much of his spare time working out comedy routines, later found work delivering sober-faced, simple monologues in Chicago nightclubs. Then he made some of the better-known TV shows (Ed Sullivan, Hoagy Carmichael) as a guest comic. He was the big splash last month on David 0. Selznick's four-network TV show Diamond Jubilee of Light (TIME, Nov. 8), delivering a deadpan talk on electronic brains that probably set science back three centuries...
...Roman Catholic Father Sydney MacEwan, 45, started to sing in a small voice that recalled much of the bewitching sweetness of the late John McCormack. He sang the centuries-old songs of plaintive and merry love, of the sea and of the rugged Hebrides, while mink-jacketed matrons and sober monsignori dabbed al misty eyes. One of the favorites...
Both Jim Cronin, owner of Jim's Place, and three House superintendents felt the "no-liquor" ban in the Stadium had subdued the crowd. "It probably kept everyone mildly sober, at least until we could serve them," Cronin said...
From London, Sir Anthony Eden cabled: "I am delighted." Colonel Nasser, in triumph, was more sober. "Another struggle is beginning," he said. "We must not be intoxicated." His government, no longer able to divert attention from its troubles by blaming everything on the British, must now get down to Egypt's age-old unsolved problems-overpopulation, disease, illiteracy, poverty...
Moscow won an easy team victory (159-89), but for London, the 5,000-meter race was the meet. Only Chris Chataway had some sober second thoughts. Looking ahead to the next Olympics, he shook his head and mumbled: "I'd still back Zatopek to beat us both...