Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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¶ In radio, the venerable Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7 p.m., CBS) began its 19th year before a studio audience so enthusiastic that even the commercial (for Lucky Strike) got as much welcoming applause as any of the cast. By now, 56-year-old Jack Benny's tightwad, pompous...
Died. Sara Allgood, 66, for a quarter-century one of Dublin's Abbey Players (Juno and the Pay cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest...
Quite apart from the importance of its subject, Generation is remarkably good reading. Every courtroom character from the principals to the least consequential witness comes sharply alive:
Ricardo and the Professor are looking for the murderer of a young "B-girl," (whatever that is) whose skeleton is discovered in a sand dune on Cape Cod. Their efforts are complicated by Elsa Lancaster, who plays the girl's unscrupulous land-lady, a character reminiscent of a malefactory Mad...
The Varsity Club, in a letter mailed out to its members early this month, explains an expanded program "to got more good athletes of strong character, leadership, and academic ability."