Word: waking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory against a strong Ivy League opponent -- Dartmouth, Princeton, or Yale--was for years the signal for destruction to begin. The goal posts went first. Furniture, glassware, and Cambridge municipal property usually followed later in the wake of the triumphant undergraduate...
...theater, used his tape recorder to get French Singer Lilo's story of her sudden stardom in Can-Can, veteran Hoofer Pat (Guys and Dolls) Rooney's advice to youngsters (first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room"), Shirley Booth and Basil Rathbone in a wake for the late Empire Theater, and Rosalind Russell with songs from Wonderful Town. This week's guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Elliott Nugent, Yul Brynner, Ezio Pinza, Alfred Drake and Cab Galloway...
Excursion (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBCTV) is the Ford Foundation TV-Radio Workshop's half-hour for children (between 8 and 16), but since it does not talk down to children, grownups will probably like it too. Its ambition is "to wake children up, open some windows, let in some fresh air, and establish values for them." Actor Burgess Meredith, in a friendly, easygoing manner, takes the kids on a variety of jaunts which have already included a sail down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn (with Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson playing Jim, the slave), a visit to Harry Truman...
...wanted to know, can you paint a little bear in 15 minutes and still make him lovable? The director replied sharply: "Quantity transforms itself into quality...Take Zvezdin. For more than eight years the man has painted only Shishkin's Morning in the Pine Forest. Wake him up at any time in the night, and he will do the job better than Shishkin himself...
...greenhill isles of Ithaca, Zante and Cephalonia, off the western shores of Greece. Villagers and vacationers from the mainland slept or stirred, or busied themselves quietly about their homes. It was 5:30 a.m. Forty seconds later, the isles lay beneath a yellow shroud of brickdust in the wake of a major earthquake...