Word: weddingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arjuna the Bowman, third of the five sons of King Pandu, won Draupadi, daughter of the King of Panchala, by shooting five swift arrows through a ring hung in midair. But Arjuna's mother Kunti told him, "All things must be shared." So the five Pandu brothers all wed Draupadi and went to live in a grand palace with crystal floors. Last week in Jaunswar Bawar, a region in the northern tip of India, the legend of Arjuna the Bowman and the whole practice of polyandry were being put to test...
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...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Counterfeit, with Boris Karloff, Jessie Royce Landis...
Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). "Love in America," discussed by. Clifton Fadiman, Alistair Cooke, Faye Emerson, Gregory Zilboorg...
Father Knows Best (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Comedy series, starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt...