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...Bitter Debate. The U.S. continued testing, at Nevada and in the Pacific, from Operation Teapot through Operation Hardtack in October of 1958. During that period, the scientists tested tactical atomic weapons, dropped an H-bomb from a B-52, fired a depth charge, triggered a missile warhead 100 miles high, tried fallout-free underground testing...
...Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully to keep the conversation on target, but the table would speak no ill of Frankie. "Gentlemen, you have a marvelous way of making him sound like Albert Schweitzer," groaned Susskind, later was drowned out in bibulous guffaws when he archly...
Last week the gum was sticking again. After eight years (since The Road to Bali), Hope, Crosby and Lamour were back in action-on The Road to Hong Kong, which is about to be shot on location in London. Arriving for work, Teapot Dome Crosby poured himself a cuppa, resulting in a rare publicity shot: Crosby minus toupee. The tea provided a needed bracer against the role of a Do-It-Yourself Space Kit salesman shot into orbit with his colleague, Hope, by a mad scientist (Robert Morley) who is trying to conquer space. Dorothy Lamour will remain pretty much...
Arguments raised recently against the present rank-listing system are a "tempest in a teapot," Stookey declared. He said that there is no real basis for freshmen taking seminars to "feel cheated" because they are not allowed to substitute the General Education Ahf grade for a mark received in another half-course...
Revised Edition. In Carlton, Nottinghamshire, England, Municipal Librarian Herbert Steele urged borrowers not to use books as "teapot stands, towels, mops, grease removers, teething rings, weapons to throw at cats and dogs...