Ernie Ko vacs defies fate with busy career comeback
Hollywood AP reports Ernie Kovacs, once given three months to live, now stars in two films Wake Me When It's Over and Strangers When We Meet, leads a weekly ABC TV show Take a Good Look, radios ten times weekly, writes a novel, and plans guest TV appearances and poker. He recalls pleurisy and double pneumonia in 1939, beating death with appetite and zest, crediting his family and mother for support amid a harsh hospital ward memory.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Ernie Kovacs
Beverly Hills
Edie Adams
Kovacs
New England
Ernie
Public Hearing on Water Revenue Bonds for Hiawatha Iowa
The Town Council of Hiawatha Iowa will hold a public hearing at 7 30 P M on December 29 1959 on issuing 30000 in Water Revenue Bonds to help pay part of the cost of establishing and purchasing a Municipal Waterworks System. Beverly J Daws Town Clerk.
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Hwa
Watha
Iowa
Hiawatha
The Best of Everything movie review and cast notes
A Paramount 20th Century Fox film stars Lana Turner and other New York career girls in a tale of love and moral turmoil. The piece critiques the film for portraying men as villains and women as love hungry, with mixed acting quality and a bleak view of career life.
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New York
Rona Jaffe
Hope Lange in a bleak portrait of a rising career woman
The passage critiques Hope Lange as a bleak figure amid a cast including Diane Baker Suzy Parker and Martha Hyer. It notes Brian Aherne Robert Evans and Louis Jourdan as various degrees of delinquents while Stephen Boyd stands as the masculine savior. Hope remains a beacon reaching for truth despite a string of sad setbacks.
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Hope Lange
Diane Baker
Suzy Parker
Martha Hyer
Brian Aherne
Robert Evans
Louis Jourdan
Stephen Boyd
Hope
Theater and film showtimes page listing multiple venues
Friday listings include PARAMOUNT and IOWA theater runs with films Best of Everything Li'l Abner Hangman Ask Any Girl Space Children Tarzan the Ape Man Say One For Me Reform School Girl Drag Strip Girl. Saturday matinee Reform School Girl and Drag Strip Girl showings noted with times.
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Iowa
Li'l Abner
Tarzan
Marion
Gazette want ads offer from EM 2-1121
A brief newspaper style note invites readers to use the Gazette want ads and provides the dialing number EM 2-1121 for placement inquiries. The message reads like a simple classified line common to period newspapers. It highlights an advertisement service and contact detail without additional context.
Broadway with Walter Winchell: Elees About Town
Danny Kaye returns to The Tenth Man on Broadway in tweed attire promoting British industry while Igor Stravinsky deposits cape and gloves at Mon Plaisir. Pat Suzuki from Flower Drum Song skates at Rockefeller rink. Henry Wallace strolls Fifth Avenue. Alan King chats Lindy’s with Sir John Gielgud. Fleur Cowles Meyer shops near Monsignore. Joe Fris co mentioned by Jack Waldron at Embers. Max Asnas offers a $2 horse bet. a disc jockey quip and more salon chatter from the Broadway scene including Esther Ralston.
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ELEES
Danny Kaye
Ulster
Igor Stravinsky
Pat Suzuki
Rockefeller Rink
Henry Wallace
Fifth Avenue
Alan King
Sir John Gielgud
Fleur Cowles Meyer
Monsignore
Fleur Lady
Cleveland Amory
Celebrity Register
76Th
3Rd Avenue
Jack Waldron
Joe Frisco
Broadway
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Jack
Max Asnas
Mr. Delicates- Sen
Hollywood Ice Revue Stars and Scandals Highlight Season
TV star Robert Cummings obsesses over health foods and spends about 1000 a year on capsules while Ileana Bulova, widow of a watchmaker, is seen at Chateau-Madrid after-dinner cigars. Red Buttons lives in a swank apartment with a butler. Tony Randall weighs legal action against a coast actor. Lester Borden, seen as a Santa, once acted in over 40 Westerns. Hermione Gingold rides coast to coast by rail as Broadway Confucius quips about payola.
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Hollywood Ice Revue
Robert Cummings
Ileana Bulova
Chateau-Madrid
Red Buttons
Tony Randall
H’wood Trades
Lester Borden
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