Word: walts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick him with . . . dud Smelly River Ordinaries"*-and, of course, there are the usual Wodehousian references to or quotations from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Lord Tennyson and Publishers Knopf, Holt, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster-all balled up together...
...show must admit kinship to Kukla, Fran and Ollie and Walt Disney, it is still the healthiest baby in the TV nursery. Brigid Bazlen claims no professional antecedents at all. Daughter of Chicago Fashion Commentator Maggie Daly Bazlen (Brigid's father is dead), she began at the age of ten with a part in an ABC network soaper called Hawkins Falls, lasted 2½ years before she was tapped for Puppeteer Nellé's show. A miracle of poise on camera, the Blue Fairy is still a refreshingly down-to-earth teen-ager offstage. Celebrating the Peabody with...
...real, live, winsome, mop-footed old English sheep dog named Chiffon (real name: Sam) that opens doors and dresser drawers, climbs ladders, sits commandingly at the wheel of a speeding car, and even gargles before going to bed at night (on the sound track, anyway). Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen-age boy (Tommy Kirk), who thereupon starts sprouting long...
...only seven of the 26 men on the Yarding squad had played the game before practice began a week ago, the team will suffer from lack of depth, especially at midfield. In a scrimmage Monday against the varsity, however, the Yardlings showed surprising strength. Attack-man Woody Spruance, midfielder Walt Arensburg, and Defenseman Henry Field will be the leading starters at their positions...
...seven boys who are experienced, however, are some of the best to appear on the Freshman lacrosse team in recent years. Boasting three men who were "All New England" school, Lentz has an extremely powerful foundation on which to build. Attackman Woody Spruance, midfielder, Walt Arensburg, and defenseman Henry Field give Lentz an exceptional player in each position...