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...memory of one of our greatest performers, who died as I am sure he would have wanted to die-in the middle of one of his greatest performances. I am sure you will agree that it would not be possible to continue with the performance." Many in the audience wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Morir!... Tremenda Cosa | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

Alcoa Presents (ABC, 10-10:30 pm) The Day the World Wept recalls the supernatural signs and portents that mourners thought they recognized when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Carney kept dialing telephone numbers, bugging long-distance operators, playing the sole part in a TV play about a sinking alcoholic. Desperately using the phone as a lifeline to the real world, he talked to his exwife, his daughter, his new fiancee and some old friends; he drank and wept, offered the drunk's typical, hopeless apologies, made glib cracks, and laughed with the sound of wind crossing a row of empty bottles. Call Me Back, a creditable but excessively maudlin first TV drama by Gagwriter Tony Webster, helped Art Carney add a superbly handled tour de force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: One-Man Telephone Hour | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...Today show, Dave Garroway wept. Said he: "I came to love Charles. He wronged himself, of course." Then Garroway broke down, left the show. Few viewers knew that the sequence was taped the afternoon before; NBC kept it in the can overnight, sobs and all, then put it on the air. It was quite a show, but NBC was missing a bet by not rerunning some of the old films of Van Doren in the Twenty One isolation booth, mopping his brow and muttering, "Let's skip that part of the question till later, please," and pretending to struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Van Doren & Beyond | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...locker room there was complete silence. "Nobody said a word," says Ravenel. "Everyone was too stunned to say anything." Many players wept quietly. "After a loss, everybody thinks about how he could have given a little more on every play," Ravenel explains, and full-back Glenn Haughie adds, "We all blame ourselves...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Anatomy of a Defeat | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

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