Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains NBC's Chicago Station Manager Jules Herbuveaux: "New York thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that the stage can't cure, and Hollywood thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that movies can't cure. Chicago goes...
Mulloy was wrong. In a semifinal match this week, he lost to the cool retrieving of Herbie Flam in a long, five-set match. Art Larsen subdued Dick Savitt to become the other finalist. One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual...
Regrettable & Inevitable. All these arguments sounded eminently reasonable. They were, however, basically wrong-or at least unrealistic. The chairman of the Council of Deputies, the U.S.'s affable
Churchill recalled that one of his earlier suggestions for strengthening the defenses of Western Europe had been dismissed as "irresponsible" by Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Said Churchill sardonically, "Perhaps it is better to-be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong." Under Attlee's Labor government, charged Churchill, Britain's defense policy had been characterized mainly by "disconnection of thought and action...
Young Pastor Muir first got in trouble with his parishioners by signing the Communist-sponsored Stockholm Peace Appeal against the use of atomic weapons (TIME, July 24). Then he began sounding off from the pulpit against "national idolatry" and "my-country-right-or-wrong" patriotism. By last week both congregations had had enough, but the Rev. Robert Muir had no intention of changing his ways. "I preach the Gospel as I see it," he said cheerfully. "We need to mobilize for peace...