Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gang's All Here (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) has the authors of Inherit the Wind once again flipping back in U.S. history to the real life 19203, this time to Warren G. Harding under the name of Griffith P. Hastings. Their portrait is a largely familiar one of a genial poker-playing mediocrity who is hoisted into the White House. His cronies are crooks whom he turns into Cabinet members and on whose strong right claws he leans for support. At the end the authors portray a Harding who commits suicide,* but not until...
...Space (CBS, Wed. 8:30-9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is made up of the best kind of science fiction: stories that come as close as careful research can bring them to becoming documentaries of tomorrow. The adventures of Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan), sometimes seem tailored to the familiar serial formula: Will the expedition land successfully on the moon? Will the space tanker explode? Will the colonel get lost among the stars? But the action is always trimmed closely to expert predictions. The show should spin into orbit...
...manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke until the great moment when he found himself puffing cigarettes with three hands...
Competing for the Business Board in the tough world of advertising and circulation wars, candidates will become familiar with the kickbacks, the protection game, and the exploitation of personal relationships...
Instead of the familiar doctor-patient relationship, Street Corner Research uses an experimenter-subject relationship that "gets information we couldn't possibly obtain by conventional methods." Adolescent subjects are paid for coming in and speaking with members of the experiment; there is no coercion or direct attempt to reform them...