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...late stepfather, Milton Work, hired Charles Goren, taught him a lot of bridge and some manners, paid him $35 a week as a ghostwriter, edited not the "brightness" but the brashness from his writing, introduced him into circles otherwise closed to him_in short, gave him a real leg up toward his present (undoubtedly earned and deserved) income of $150,000 a year...
...Capsule previews of the most promising television programs. Among the recommendations for this week: the return of Milton ("Mr. Television") Berle to active duty, Jackie Gleason and Betsy Palmer in The Time of Your Life, TIME Cover Subject (Nov. 28, '55) Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda. ¶The editors' choices of the best current books, as well as TIME'S own bestseller list (what makes the best reading and the best selling will only occasionally coincide). The bestseller list is compiled from weekly wired reports by TIME correspondents in 22 U.S. cities, collated according to a statistical...
Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Milton Berle is back with a new variety show (in color). Surely something old, maybe something new, certainly something borrowed, and, if he can get away with it, something a little blue...
...Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's adviser on government operations, drew up plans for coordinating federal agencies; after Eisenhower was elected, served on a three-man (other members: Milton Eisenhower, Arthur Flemming) committee that streamlined government, established -among other things-a new Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ¶As HEW under secretary (1953-54), drafted legislation to extend Social Security benefits and increase vocational rehabilitation. Also offered other proposals, e.g., federal reinsurance to extend private-hospitalization benefits, aid to education, that were too liberal for the Eisenhower Administration...
Television air waves were "empty and hungry" when Chicago Lawyer Milton Gordon set out to appease the hunger in 1953. As a vice president of Walter E. Heller & Co., Gordon worked on movie financing, helped launch United Artists (TIME, April 28), saw the need of small stations for television films. Teaming up with Hollywood Producer Edward Small, Gordon formed Television Programs of America, Inc. as a production and distribution company. Into T.P.A. Gordon and Small put $125,000 apiece, bought their first series. Ramar of the Jungle, for $100,000. In the era before Hollywood features became standard late-show...