Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cinderella sister of Oxford and Cambridge, London U. still holds its classes in workaday clothes. Its students are too busy with their books to be bothered about being gentlemen scholars. As they "came down" from the autumn term last week, they had few opportunities to wear dinner jackets, even if they owned any. Vacation meant little more than time for a trip on the underground to a Leicester Square movie rather than a Russell Square lecture...
...haven't hit anyone in the face with a pie in over two years," says Art Linkletter wistfully. He explains: "Radio and TV are in a do-good phase these days. Everybody's busy turning some unfortunate's life into a Cinderella story." As a veteran broadcaster, 40-year-old Art Linkletter skillfully rides the trends-:rom giveaways to guessing games. And expects to still be around with such shows as his House Party (weekdays, 2:45 p.m., CBS-TV and 3:15 p.m., CBS radio) and People Are Funny (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS radio) when...
...Yorker's E. B. White retires, as all city intellectuals should, to a roomy barn on a large farm. Here, on a cosy dung heap, he sets Wilbur, a runt that is never likely to make much of a pig-a sort of porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider, who spins over his sty such...
...feel a little like Cinderella," said Queenie last night. "All this honor to night, and when I wake up tomorrow morning. I'll have to go back to pushing a room...
Idler plans a production of "Cinderella" by candidates early in December...