Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bandwagon. First news agency to climb on the FBI bandwagon was Whitehead's old boss, the A.P., which bought serial rights to the book in November. A.P.'s version was offered on an exclusive basis to the first member newspaper in any territory that asked for it. When the book became a sellout, publishers who had been beaten to the A.P. series went to work to find another one. United Press assigned staffers to put together a six-part series, with a preface by Hoover, on the FBI's top cases, from Al Capone to Brink...
...formula for the situation-comedy series is the electronic version of the old comic strip, with its broadly caricatured characters, simon-simple situations and zam-powie slapstick. Two new series made the point last week. Blondie (NBC, Fri. 8 p.m., E.S.T.) carried its own comic-strip pedigree. Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, Fri. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) offered husband-and-wife Hollywood stars playing husband-and-wife Hollywood stars. Howard Duff as a vain boob, Ida Lupino as the archetypically wise better-half. Except for wife Lupino's acerbic way with a line, it never got off the comic page...
Exchanged Sarcasms. Such respectful words have beauty of a sort for Charles Randall Brown, a heavy-set and hard-boiled Southerner who reads the Bible in the King James version nightly, revels in discussing the Koran with Turks and writes round-robin letters to his friends back home about his visits to foreign ports. Admiral Brown is both sensitive and salty. "You can't put a martini in a refrigerator," he says, "any more than you can put in a kiss"; and he sums up his 1921 wedding to Marylander Eleanor Green in a quaint, jazz...
...with an impressive concentration of forces-including Duke Ellington's band, the Australian Jazz Quintet, a vocal group and ten leading singers-it has recorded the famed work in a real jazz spirit. Each selection is accompanied by a different combo, e.g., Duke Ellington for a highly charged version of Summertime, a creative trumpet backing for I Got Plenty of Nuthin', and plenty of improvised solos are sprinkled throughout. To keep the spirit of improvisation intact, Bethlehem indulged in some offbeat casting, with surprising results. Frances Faye's bone-dry, heart-of-gold style is strangely...
Petticoats of Portugal (Pérez Prado; RCA Victor). A rising tune whose simpering lyrics belong in tinseled nightclub surroundings, in its most palatable version. Cuban Bandleader Prado presents it in slow mambo rhythm, and mercifully omits all vocals except for one Pradian grunt...