Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the Monday meeting, Burke, said yesterday that he had given a week's notice that Roy M. Goodman '51, Council treasurer, would occupy the chair at the meeting. Burke added that Goodman had not made up his mind on the resolution when he took the chairmanship...
Burke had ceded the chairmanship of the meeting to Treasurer Roy M. Goodman '51 early in the evening so that he would be able to discuss and vote on the discrimination question. After the resolution had passed, several members objected to Burke's tactics, however, for Goodman, who had come out against the resolution, was then unable to vote...
This week, Goodman Ace and wife Jane brought a new version of their old Easy Aces to television (Wed. 7:45 p.m., Du Mont), complete with puns, malapropisms and humor aimed at grownups. "It's sort of a homey little thing," explained Ace. "We don't expect it to revolutionize the business...
York on their TV set. The plotless show consisted entirely of Goodman's and Jane's comments on the film, of her misinterpretations of the obvious and his exasperated efforts to set her straight. In a typical gag, Ace says, wonderingly: "Imagine the Indians selling Manhattan for $24! And where are the Indians today!" Jane: "Playing baseball for Cleveland." Future shows will have only such subsidiary characters as an eight-year-old all-white West Highland terrier named Blackie and Ace's complaining, cliché-ridden mother-in-law (played by Betty Garde...
Since the TV version of Easy Aces is a filmed "package" show, produced by the Frederic W. Ziv Co., and since several sponsors will carry the show over 40 stations of the Du Mont network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself...