Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrate upon repairing and rebuilding its friendship with the Arab states. So skillful was his handling of the crisis of Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh that President Eisenhower gave him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for "courage and leadership during a dangerously unsettled period, for wisdom and unfailing patience in the course of complex negotiations...
...first star-studded salute from Texaco Command Appearance, an hour-long series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman's Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James Michener will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and David Ben-Gurion. Wide Wide World returns Sundays to alternate with Omnibus, which promises to bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel...
...bell pacing life in the town. In the gallery of lawyers serving beneath the bell, the outstanding figure is Noah Tuttle, Winner's senior partner, a doughty old lion of the law in his white-maned 80s, crotchety, plainspoken, a portable archive of torts, statutes and the cumulative wisdom...
...widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than 100 real-life problems involving alcoholism, civic intrigue and second marriages. This week the problem was divorce. Ma's indomitable spirit and homely wisdom have glowed through 6,207 treacly episodes, totaling 93,105 minutes, establishing Ma as the undisputed queen of soap opera...
...Bosley is genial as the psychiatrist, who believes that "we all have great unconscious wisdom." Joan Croydon repeats her warm Broadway interpretation of the priest's housekeeper. Adele Thane makes the most of Mrs. Potter's one scene. And Maureen Hurley brings the right amount of neuroticism to the part of Sara. Edmund Roney and Lawrence Spector give capable support as the prim banker and the easy-going roommate...