Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol Hill generate as much fear and frustration as Congressman John James Rooney. In the 17 years that he has chaired the powerful House Subcommittee on Appropriations for State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary and related agencies, the diminutive Democrat from Brooklyn has made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates...
...COMEDY PLAYHOUSE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Seven Little Foys. The story of the vaudeville family, starring Eddie Foy Jr. as Eddie Foy Sr. and Mickey Rooney as George M. Cohan. Repeat...
...seems like a kid who has stayed up past his bedtime. During the Depression parents somehow found their children easier to get along with -perhaps because they had a sense of sharing a common crisis. Children seemed comforting, or at least cheering. Hollywood fostered Jackie Cooper, Frankie Darro, Mickey Rooney, Our Gang and the apotheosis of innocence, Shirley Temple. "I class myself with Rin-Tin-Tin," she later said, referring to such films as Bright Eyes and Curly Top. "At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer them up. They fell in love with...
...week's most entertaining special dealt with seemingly the dullest subject for TV: The Strange Case of the English Language, a collaboration by CBS Commentator Harry Reasoner and Writer-Producer Andrew Rooney. Best bit: film clips of well-known speakers in the throes of foot-in-mouth disease...
...NEWS (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Harry Reasoner and Andrew Rooney join forces for another essay: "The American Woman." What is she really like and what does she think of herself...