Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pinocchio: On TV's big night of three spectaculars costing $1,325,000 (TIME, Oct. 14), NBC's Pinocchio itself was worth the price of transmission. Collodi's tale of the wooden doll who turns into a real boy is a moral fable; yet it is also a down-to-earth story of broad fun and cliffhanging climaxes, and it takes a sophisticated view of human foibles. NBC's version was a rollicking production full of style and striking images, a bouncy score, and dances depicting the fluttery rhythms of liberated marionettes and the slow-motion...
...frying pans contents were now unloaded onto my plate. There being no salt or pepper, I commenced to eat. After struggling with amazing incapacity for ten minutes with my pair of wooden chop sticks, I capitulated to a fork. The Chicken blubber tasted just like chicken blubber, and the herbs like marinated spinach. I asked my friend about the shredded celophane...
...wooden double doors of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty's Episcopal Palace are locked now, and shutters are drawn over the windows where candles flickered briefly last year, for the first time in years, on Allhallows' Eve. But from his refuge in the American legation, Mindszenty remains a symbol to the Hungarian people. The regime would be happy to have him leave the country...
...actors has been programed without any overlapping: ¶ NBC and Rexall Drug Co. will try spreading some elfin cheer (6:30 to 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) with a $325,000 "free treatment" of Pinocchio, with Walter Slezak, Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn Green, and as the wooden hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time in three years) to present Bing...
Died. Walter Duranty, 73, bald, wooden-legged (from a 1924 train wreck), Pulitzer Prizewinning (1932) New York Times foreign correspondent (1913-39), novelist (One Life, One Kopeck), autobiographer (I Write as I Please), longtime (1921-34) No. 1 Timesman in Russia and No. 1 Russian apologist in the U.S. (when Stalin doomed some 3,000,000 peasants to death from starvation by withholding grain, Duranty wrote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"); of a stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge...