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While Climax was showing how much funnier Mark Twain is between the covers of a book than on a TV screen, CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.) was showing how much wittier Playwright J. B. Priestley is on the stage. The TV adaptation of Laburnum Grove, under the title Counterfeit, came around slowly to Priestley's engaging idea. A kindly English mediocrity (Boris Karloff) wants nothing more in the world than to live a quiet life in a London suburb, devoting his spare time to raising tomatoes. But since he is incapable of earning...
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...skintight black jeans and green sport shirt, Singer Harry Belafonte riveted his audience in Las Vegas, where he opened last week, with Mark Twain - based on the cry of the man with the lead-line on a towboat. This song, and many another in Belafonte's repertory, represents a draft on a treasury in Washington, D.C. that to many a scholar and singer is more important than Fort Knox...
...great majority of normal people. "She is the only one who has ever been received without apology into the world of the seeing." Miss Helen Keller has been blessed and deservedly so with invaluable friends such as H. H. Rogers, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Dr. Van Dyko, Mark Twain, Phillips Brooks, William James, and the Dowager, Queen of Rumania. She has met many a magnate in America, including Ford and Edison. She has also been to the White House and met most of the presidents of her life-time: Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Coolidge. Before I proceed...
Answer: I have as many as I have moods: Keats, Shelley, Browning, Mark Twain, Shaw, Conrad, etc. Mark Twain? I never sensed him laugh...