Word: stumblebum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not like to give up old sources of entertainment without a struggle, hence this analysis of your April 11 issue. The stage is set in the Publisher's Letter . . . Proceeding through NATIONAL AFFAIRS to the piece headed "Nothing Sacred," we learn that a stumblebum Senator [Matthew Neely] has had the temerity to express his irritation with [the President's] well-publicized churchgoing habits. . . Then, why you devoted one page in JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES to the epistle of AECommissioner Murray ("Science and religion must join if the world is to survive the H-bomb") is difficult to understand...
...Teddy Roosevelt (and leads a spirited charge up San Juan Hill every time he gallops upstairs), while Orson Bean managed to bring fresh good humor to the part of the only sane member of the zany Brewster family. Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff made a satisfying pair of stumblebum villains. Few TV revivals of old Broadway plays have come off as entertainingly and inventively as Arsenic and Old Lace...