Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be served by naming names. The one aspect of the show that is worthy of praise is the fine set designed by Stephan Palestrant. He alone seems to have any idea of the style and lightness required for the staging of a dated farce. In fact, to paraphrase Wolcott Gibbs, Mr. Palestrant's sets were delightful, it's a shame that all those people kept walking in front of them...
...Shawn who persuaded a skeptical Ross to introduce the magazine's excellent World War II coverage, and to devote an entire issue to John Hersey's report on Hiroshima. Shawn is now handicapped by the fact that most of the writers (Thurber, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Clifton Fadiman, Joel Sayre, Alva Johnston, et al.) and cartoonists (Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, O. Soglow, Gardner Rea, et al.) who made The New Yorker famous have either died, wandered off to the exurbs, or become infrequent contributors. E. B. White's civilized despair and gentle celebration of nature...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The versatile Carney is now a railroad employee ferrying freight-car barges (and strange cargo) across the Hudson River, in a script suggested by a Wolcott Gibbs short story. Color...