Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continuing series" by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences-the kind of distinction that hard-riding Tom Mix and Buck Jones never overtook. In movies the adult Western goes back at least as far as John Ford's Stagecoach. On the air it owes its start to the radio version of Gunsmoke, which began in 1952. Some adult...
...sabre, Mitch Thomas, Dough Runnels, and Dave Silbert will start, with Don Tingle ready for substitution. Dough Fitchen, Bob Scrivner, and Bill Chapple will start in epee, while Bruce Parker will replace Tony Enders as a reservist...
...novelty which counteracts the trite moral issue. The girl is especially startling, one of those rare fictional characters whom you have met somewhere before. The intensity which Nemerov generates around these people can well pull the reader through the book in a single sitting, if he overcomes the slow start...
...hero of The Fur Person does not start by being a Fur Person. He is first a stray who considers himself Cat About Town. Then he decides to be a Gentleman Cat and find a home. Though his first attempts are discouraging, he perseveres; and his fortunes are reflected in his changing names: Nice Kitty, Tom Jones, Jones, Terrible Jones, Gentle Cat, Cat of Peace, Glorious Jones, Official Philosopher, and, finally, Fur Person...
...Person in a way to start with, partly cat and partly humans, because Miss Sarton's imagination allows her to take his viewpoint from the start. She knows that though cats can come to have human characteristics by living with people, still cats have their dignity, which human people must regard, especially those who dare write books about cats. Her point seems to be that it's easier for her to be a cat lover than for a cat to be a lover of people...