Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's popularity, which dropped to an alltime low during the 1958 recession, has bounced back to its highest point since the summer of 1957, when Ike was pushing hard on his atoms-for-peace plan. In reply to its standard question ("Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?"), the Gallup poll last week reported new figures...
France's dressmakers almost burst their seams with envy at the news that the Paris fashion house founded by the late Christian Dior will haul its entire summer collection to Moscow early in June. The House of Dior, in a cultural exposition unparalleled since the days of the czars, will be presented to Soviet bigwigs and Moscow's diplomatic corps, then move into a big public hall, play to proletarians (admission: $3 top) for six days. Asked by a Dior representative if the group could bring along the normal retinue of aides, hairdressers and some 120 models...
...normal standards of American slapstick, featuring a Skelton in every closet, this is the lightest, flakiest brand of pie in the eye. But as performed last week by imported British Comedian Dave King in his first show as Milton Berle's TV summer replacement (NBC, Wed., 9 p.m.), it seemed tasteful and gratifyingly fresh. A comedian who works primarily in pantomime, King is a kind of Jack Tati in his characterization of the well-meaning Englishman who really could cope with life except for the fact that the world itself is a little out of kilter...
...Hall into his own show, became Britain's top-rated comedian. An even more striking one-shot: his decision to ask his agent to bring some TV films to Perry Como, who as producer of Berle's show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October at a fat U.S. TV salary. Entertainer King might even be able to cash in on the craze for westerns. His two-year-old daughter, as a result of his interest in Indian lore, is named Cheyenne...
...Ahead lay still more prickly years, not mentioned in Early Havoc, when June bounced from other marathons to modeling, from soap operas to summer stock, before she broke into lights. June's final judgment of her Early Havoc: "I had learned a lot. I would be careful of everybody and everything . . . You can take the girl out of vaudeville, but you can't take the vaudeville out of the girl...