Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your comments on the recent TV quiz show scandal [Oct. 19] with great interest-incredulity even. Why should anybody get excited about a fixed quiz show? It is quite obvious that the producers involved were simply delivering what the public wanted to see, namely, entertainment. Who cares whether a TV wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against...
...Stuart Symington as a businessman, dropped the W. when he got into politics) was an "extravagantly beautiful" child, recalls his doting sister Louise. Absorbing the household's bookish atmosphere-adorning the mantle was a Latin motto that translates as "Life without literature is death"-little Stu read so avidly that the family called him "the professor." As his Christmas present when he was ten, he asked for and got a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Villains of the piece are mostly peasant oldsters who launch a religious revival when young Hero Rodka finds a buried icon of St. Nicholas near an abandoned church. From a larger village nearby comes Father Dmitry to read the Bible ("All listened attentively with heavy breathing, but in every face it was plain to read that they understood not one word"). Rodka is finally hooked by religion when he hears awesome reverberations in the church tower just before midnight each night and he staggers home convinced that God exists, muttering: "No more future, no more happiness, all finished." (The noises...
When he wrote these lines (in LIFE), soon after winning $129,000 on Twenty-One, Charles Van Doren was sneering at the intellectual futility of TV's quiz games. But by last week, Van Doren's words could be read less as sneer than as simple statement of fact. The office of New York District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped its last qualifying hedges, in effect said that Van Doren had admitted receiving both questions and answers on Twenty-One, as had his successor, Hank Bloomgarden...
Strong Sentiment. In Syracuse, N.Y., after a milk bottle crashed through his $175 picture window, George Russo read the note inside: "Couldn't stop to say hello, so greetings anyway...