Word: sullivanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson ends were playing wide against these runs, and often managed to turn them inside. But the Princeton tailbacks, Hugh "the Great" Scott and John "Silky" Sullivan, usually managed to get six to ten yards into the Crimson secondary before being brought down. They were both fast and tricky runners; and they were greatly assisted by the blocking of Capt. Fred Tiley and quarterback Mike Ippolito...
...once, every act on next Sunday's Ed Sullivan Show will be funny on purpose; there will be no performing dogs, no movie clips, no marching bands-just laughs. Sullivan turned his whole program over to a film of one of the famed Friars Club dinners, at which the venerable show-business club periodically honors and heckles show folk. Target of the dinner seen on the Sullivan show: Ed Sullivan. Result: one of the sprightliest TV hours of the fall...
Faced with a dais of sharpshooting comedians, frozen-faced Ed Sullivan himself is separated from a smile or two, notably when Friar "Abbot" Joe E. Lewis describes him as the "only fellow who can light a room up-just by leaving it." The smile actually broadens a bit when M.C. Jack Carter snaps back: "Lewis is more than a Friar. He's really a stewing chicken." Between Rocky Graziano's remote snuffles and Jack E. Leonard's belligerent groans, the show seldom slows down. Comedian Joey Bishop's brief speech moves the audience to a fine...
Before the show is half over, viewers are likely to wonder why CBS is not putting other Friars Club dinners on the air. Fact is, CBS planned on doing just that. After seeing the Sullivan pilot film, the Texas Co. was all set to pay $4,500,000 for a package that included eight similar shows, but backed out at the last minute. High-octane operators were disturbed, so the story goes, over a brief, dull speech by New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the last portion of the dinner. But Producer Nat (Bilko) Hiken, himself...
...replacements, Hugh Scott and Jack Sullivan, are both very fast and hard-driving runners; and they will doubtless give the Crimson ends a rough afternoon, if the varsity defense is too insideminded...