Word: weekender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a tippler who stays on the wagon for weeks only to allow himself an occasional major binge. After a long dry spell, CBS and ABC last weekend went on a big, glorious bender...
...weekend opened with Comic Pianist Victor Borge, whose show was the familiar, funny and overlong romp. It closed with admirably durable Rosalind Russell once again going through the invigorating setting-up exercises of Wonderful Town. CBS gave it two hours, and the TV version of the Broadway musical turned out to be just as whackily brilliant as the original. When the camera zoomed in on Roz and Sister Eileen (Jacquelyn McKeever), huddled in their virginal Manhattan bed and wailing Why Did I Ever Leave Ohio?, the old Town never seemed more wonderful...
Among the real heroes of the weekend bender were half-a-hundred puppets, Poet Ogden Nash, Conductor Leonard Bernstein (also responsible for the Wonderful Town score) and Ludwig van Beethoven...
...compare India's economic progress with China's, you will find that India is filling her needs much faster than China," said R. Venkataraman, high official in Madras, India, visiting here this weekend. "Furthermore, China and the Soviet Union never broadcast quantitative statistics, they give you percentages instead...
Tackle Robert Shaunessy, this season's varsity captain, made the All-Ivy First Team in the Associated Press' annual football poll. The results were announced yesterday, after the final weekend of Ivy League play...