Word: disappointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vaudevillians Burns & Allen are not likely to disappoint their fans. Pointing up Gracie's gags, Straightman George uses a slow-burn delivery and purse-mouthed pauses ("A man drowned once while I was pausing"). Compared to the machine-gun patter of most TV comics, his style gives the show a relaxed, almost leisurely pace. A high point of the program: Gracie's dubious plugs for Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations...
...Maroon and Gold were never expected to be in the game, and they didn't disappoint. Leicester fielded a fairly heavy and very slow squad that showed no effective offensive or defensive end play, no passing ability, no pass defense, and a pathetic lack of conditioning...
Last week Butter & Egg Man Harbour got this reply from Delhi's Chief Commissioner Shankar Prasada: "I am sorry to disappoint you, but I much regret to say that I have not had the pleasure of meeting the 'Human Top,' much less see it whirl ... I hope that this will be a warning to you and to many other credulous gentlemen not to take seriously . . . the sensational nonsense that is sometimes published about the so-called Mysterious East." Delhi's Hindustan Times added its own tart postscript: "Our American friends are ... sometimes no better than grown...
...Sorry to disappoint old Uncle Joe again, but the Russians are not the first to use a cyclodrome on a global basis [TIME, May 22]. We saw one in a fair last year...