Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kraft TV Theater: After more than ten years of fighting the ratings battle for Wednesday night, TV's oldest drama series finally got around to dramatizing it. Kraft called the play The Battle for Wednesday Night. But Scriptwriter Robert Van Scoyk, who used to write for Jackie Gleason, clearly fixed his view on Sunday night and its two warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided...
...story: "The winner wouldn't be alone when he got there. These days politicians-even entertainers!-are flying in 'on the milk run' almost every day. WHY DON'T YOU GO TOO!" Next day the Express announced the details: "All you have to do: write on a postcard-in not more than 50 words-the message I would like to deliver to the people at the South Pole...
...Harry Truman will declare, "Eisenhower is sick, sick, sick." The HYDC says "Those guys are crazy." Eisenhower has not been seen for three weeks. The Harvard Liberal Union will write a folk song commemorating the death of five executives of the Harvard Young Democratic Club. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will deny any inter-service difficulties as the Navy continues to send waves of Marines into the Pentagon via helicopters. Perry Miller gives Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. his harpoon and kayak as a going away present...
...reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...
...There are too many of them." says James (The Wonderful 0) Thurber. "The trouble is, everyone thinks he can write a children's book." Picture books range from the sophisticated cutouts of Italy's Bruno Munari in Tic, Tac and Toe to the bold line drawings of Kurt Wiese for Claire Huchet Bishop's classic The Five Chinese Brothers; nature shines in Roger Duvoisin's The House of Four Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic...