Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Electric Theater: As Director and narrator of The Trail to Christmas, Hollywood's James Stewart spun a seasonal western yarn about an hombre named Ebenezer Scrooge, "the richest man in the whole territory." Sure enough, Dickens' A Christmas Carol made itself right at home on the range. When Bob Cratchit, a cowhand squatting on Scrooge's land, made his entrance, Scrooge snapped: "Where've you been? Rustlin' some of my cattle? It don't seem you're ever at the ranch when I come by." Marley's ghost wore...
...Plaza in New York, subsisting on Room Service, while Mother is off being divorced, or remarried, or something. Eloise has authorized Nightclub Comedienne and occasional Author Kay Thompson to write her biography. Two years ago the first installment, titled Eloise, was a whirlaway bestseller, and this sequel spun into its second printing even before publication. It too is magnificently illustrated by Artist Hilary Knight, who has captured Eloise in a style that evokes British Cartoonist Ronald Searle's "Belles of St. Trinian's" and is best described as cutely lethal...
...full face to enter the age of the satellite. It left behind the notions that no speedup was necessary in missile and satellite development, that the administrative organization of the defense establishment was satisfactory, that interservice rivalries were somehow healthy, that the budget remained sacrosanct even while Red moons spun through the sky. Just a few weeks before, President Eisenhower, asked at his press conference if he might name a special White House scientific adviser, replied: "I hadn't thought of that." Last week he not only appointed such an adviser but gave him far-reaching powers. Indeed...
...that 65 million Americans had no professed church affiliation, Dr. Gockel aimed his nonsectarian show at "the great unchurched-they are our potential customers." The first shows were a serialized morality play about Druggist Carl Fisher of Middleburg, U.S.A., a sort of male Ma Perkins whose soda-fountain stools spun with ordinary people with ordinary problems. After 3½ years the synod elders decided that the Fisher family had come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern social...
...best part of his program was the series after the intermission; beginning with a fine, driving Frankie and Johnnie, he spun his way through two of the best blues ever written: House of the Rising Sun and Hard Times Blues. White followed these with a blues version of Molly Malone. This song, like Barbara Allen before the intermission, illustrates his tendency to convert songs alien to his background into personal vehicles; his Barbara and Molly come from New Orleans, but Josh makes them convincing...