Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Maxwell Anderson's Star Wagon, with Ed die Bracken as a man who invents a time-annihilating machine, assisted by Diana Lynn, Billie Burke, Jackie Coogan...
...Eyed Boss. As a kid on the streets of New Haven, Conn., where his father sold coal, oil and wood from a horse-drawn wagon, Podoloff seldom found time for fun and games. He worked his way through Yale (the 1913 class of Averell Harriman and Cole Porter) by selling tickets for an excursion steamer and playing clarinet in a band, went on to a law degree, and then drifted into real estate. One day he found himself owner of both the New Haven Arena and the ice-hockey team that played there. Soon, with other arena owners...
Beginning with Patrick Henry's stirring "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?'' Lawrence carries through to a scene of a covered wagon under attack. Eventually he plans to take the series up to the Industrial Revolution of the 1870s. While staying clear of most set historical tableau scenes, Lawrence has managed to bring fresh drama to those he found irresistible, e.g., Washington crossing the Delaware River, which he shows as a series of crowded boats in muted greens and browns, covered and muffled against...
...have said nothing about such miscellaneous diversions as safety campaigns, fire-prevention week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...
CHRYSLER PRODUCTION slump is worrying dealers, who complain that they cannot get enough cars to meet big demand, that Plymouth station-wagon delivery has not even begun. Dealers ordered 350,000 Chrysler cars in first month after introduction of new models, but Chrysler will roll out only 252,000 autos by January. Reason: strikes and production trouble because Chrysler rushed complete redesign of all models in 20 months v. normal lead time of three years...