Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Respect. The professional sheen is applied by a cherubic-looking producer named Worthington Miner, 49, who came to television ten years ago with a directorial credit list of Broadway hits (Five Star Final, Reunion in Vienna, On Your Toes). Borrowing liberally from stage & screen (he also did a stint with RKO in Hollywood), "Tony" Miner has pioneered in TV with such effective techniques as the use of recordings for unspoken thoughts; the blending of film and live acting, and the combination of close-ups and long shots to get depth on the screen. His fondness for last-minute technical tinkering...
...Texas (pop. 22,500), one cold night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
Married. Heywood Hale ("Woodie") Broun, 31, onetime sportwriter (New York City's defunct PM and Star) turned actor (summer stock and Love Me Long), son of the late Columnist Heywood Broun, and Actress Jane Lloyd-Jones, in Woodstock...
...back once again, on a program sponsored by a B.A. department store. José's programs were no longer filled with rollicking Mexican airs and passionate love songs. Handsome José, now a greying 54, had long since given up the luxury and adulation of a movie star's life and become a Franciscan monk...
...students at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., Executive Editor Gideon Seymour of the Cowles brothers' Minneapolis Star and Tribune (combined circ. 105,332) last week gave his considered opinion on certain columnists. "They are all journalistic racketeers-I mean pitchmen," said Editor Seymour. "They are like the oldtime medicine men. They have to produce a sensation...