Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tony Randall, Judith Anderson and Margaret O'Brien concoct an evening full of problems out of the small talk and big times of cafe society. Based on The Second Happiest Day, 1953 bestseller by John Phillips, son of Bestseller John P. Marquand...
...ordinary science, the explorer walks along with his eyes on his feet and measures every step. The speculator, however, "lifts his eyes off the ground" and gives his imagination free play, grounded in scientific fact, to concoct the possibilities of the future...
...young painter patient with one suicide attempt behind him. The curing of Stevie is also a pet project of a thirtyish war widow on McIver's staff who sees eye to eye with him on therapeutic methods. Together with the "patients' governing committee," McIver and the widow concoct a plan for Stevie to design new draperies for the sanitarium living room. Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their...
...last reached its millenium. It has managed to concoct two hours of first-rate musical comedy entertainment merely by tossing together a standard love plot, a romantic background, and three or four song hits of 20 years ago. It has stood pat on the stock Hollywood formula; but by perfect taste in filling the mold with Gershwin, Paris, and a captivating French ingenue by the name of Leslie Caron, it has turned out one of the most enjoyable musicals in years...
...suspicious when Mrs. Grace Walker tried to collect for head injuries she claimed she suffered while walking near a granite quarry last month. Mrs. Walker, alias Rimrock Annie, had had a long and profitable history of similar claims. Her success was due to the fact that she could apparently concoct at will such convincing symptoms as bleeding at the ear. In Colorado, Annie admitted her talent for artistic malingering, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week she was sentenced to the state penitentiary for one to three years...