Word: shirley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing this week's cover story, Writer Seamon drew on 40,000 words of research from Show Business Reporters Serrell Hillman, Dorothea Bourne and Ruth Brine, who spent a total of 30 hours with their subject. Dick Seamon, a newsman who can write equally well about Willie Mays, Shirley MacLaine or Anne Bancroft, epitomizes TIME'S regard for versatility and breadth, is a modern, journalistic example of the sort of writer Ben Jonson admired some 350 years ago. Wrote Jonson: "And though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing than another...
...noon). The 33rd annual procession features giant balloons, gaudy floats, costumed marchers, and Shirley Temple...
...Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Rapunzel stars Carol (Blue Denim) Lynley, Agnes Moorehead, Alexander Scourby...
Mixed Methods. Even children were taught to cheat. The probing Congressmen summoned Child Actress Patty (The Miracle Worker) Duke, a Challenge champ. Her manager, John Ross, testified that answers were fed to her by Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein, 36, sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein. In the popular-music category, elfin Patty tied with Child Actor Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges, 12, split $64,000 with him.* Manager Ross admitted that he gave $1,000 of his share to the show's "People-Getter" Irving Harris, pocketed $3,800 of Patty's prize himself as his manager...
...Payoff. Meanwhile, other former contestants began to sing. Manhattan Adman Arthur Cohn Jr. recalled his appearance on The $64,000 Challenge. At a warmup, said Cohn, his opponent came out of a private session with Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein (sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein), positively popping with both questions and answers. Disgusted with what he was convinced was a fraud, Cohn took his beating, complained to the show's sponsor (Revlon), and insisted that his $250 consolation prize be donated to charity...