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Palm Beach Daily News, Sunday, December 26, 1993 B3 CROSSWORD EDITED BY JAMES C. BOLDT AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS Ford's 50th anniversary show was milestone of '50s culture WASHINGTON One more anniversary ought to be noted before 1993 slips away. In addition to all the other significant dates celebrated during the past year, 1993 marked the 40th anniversary of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show. ACROSS 1 Israel's Eban 5 Goya's "The Naked 9 Sentry's -cry 13 Addis, Ethiopia '18 Weaver's need 19 Lobster roe j20 Mine, In Metz 21 News sniffers 2Z Gift for Santa himself? Characteristic -26 Rusts 27 Uke Hamelin's piper 28 Masquerade 79 met in thee tonight." 80 Christening tap 81 Supplied the party food 83 Idea 85 rendu: account rendered 87 J. Fonda's Oscar winner 88 Hajji goal 89 Sounds of laughter 90 "Rome of Hungary" 91 Slightly open 92 Stadium feature 93 Terrier type 94 Whitewall 95 Anna's king's land 97 Put 2 and 2 together 98 Tennis unit 49 Greek odist 51 Art gallery purchase 52 French income 53 First name of 78 Down 54 Frame of mind 56 Observed 58 Owner apt.

60 Composer Saint 61 Com color 62 Hawaiian porch 63 Kate or Al 64 That Bellow fellow 65 Villain's grimaces 66 Chief of SAC: 1948-61 67 Feudal toiler 68 Pile up 69 Method 72 Quaker gray 76 Book appendixes 77 Presided over 78 Designer de la 80 Ghana's capital 82 Diabolical 84 we come 85 Elegant, colloquially 86 Portends 87 Welles' "Citizen 88 Castle ditch 89 Gangster's gun 91 Came down 92 Teapots' contents? 96 Beaming broadly 97 Gift from Steven Spielberg? 100 Nativity villain 101 Appointment 102 Upright 103Jaquarundi 104 Gladiators' milieu 105 Famous Scott 106 Neighbor of Twelve Oaks 107 Consider DOWN 1 One of the Waughs 2 British lad, breezily 3 Afrikaner 4 Writer Bierce 5 Did a lawn job 6 Crafts' partner 7 Chew the fat 8 'Earty's cockney partner 9 Most befogged 10 Arabian bigwig 11 "Joy to the world! The is come;" 12 "the 13 The "merchant of Venice" 14 First to orbit the moon 15 Gift for Pavarotti? 16 "You Oughta Pictures" 17 Concerning 19 Encrypted 23 Second growth crop 24 Downs: Surrey racetrack 28 Rum, to some 30 "God Rest Merry, Gentlemen" 31 Before jury, point or fours 32 Wooden shoes 33 Seductive nymph 34 Gift for Baryshnikov? 35 Neighbor's child 36 Blot 37 Whopper tellers 38 Otherwise 40 Synthetic fiber 41 Implementer 42 Michael Caine film: 1966 45 Eucharist plate 47 Revolutionary Villa That program, which aired June 15, 1953, was a landmark in television and more: It was a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s. Because the show was live and there was no videotape, all that remains is TOM mis 99 Mexican Mrs. Memorial after being banned from the stage of Constitution Hall, closed the program with The Battle Hymn of the Republic and earlier sang a deeply moving He's Got the Whole World in His Hand. Even now, viewed years later, this performance has a magnificent immediacy. Anderson died in April of this year at age 96.

No great singer had ever been seen and heard by so many people at one time as on the night Anderson sang to America in 1953. The program had music, comedy, and production numbers staged by Broadway luminary Jerome Robbins. And near the end of the two hours, Murrow and Hammerstein got together onstage for a sobering little chat about the nuclear age and the Cold War that were then only a few years old. They stood in front of a mushroom cloud and wondered if in the years ahead there would still be singers to sing songs, and people to hear them. And bravely, considering this was the height of McCarthyism in the U.S., Murrow also said: "Nations have lost their freedom while preparing to defend it, and if we in this country confuse dissent with disloyalty, we deny the right to be wrong." A few minutes earlier in the program, Kukla and Ollie had followed Merman and Martin singing There's No Business Like Show Business with a chat of their own.

"There's no business like television, either," Ollie said. "Well, it's so young, you know," said Kukla. "Yes," said Ollie. "Whenever will it grow up?" "Maybe tonight, Ollie," Kukla replied. "Maybe tonight." Happy 40th anniversary, Ford 50th Anniversary Show.

Ford Motor Co. hired legendary producer Leland Heyward and bought two hours of air time on NBC and CBS in 1953 to celebrate its founding 50 years earlier. sion shows in years to come. The Martin-Merman duet, quickly released as a pop record, was a huge theatrical event, but not one that people read about later in a newspaper or heard about from someone who had been present in the theater. Sixty million people saw it on the same night.

Sixty million people had the best seat in the house. Actually, The Best Seat in the House is the title of a new autobiography by Pat Weaver, one of the presiding geniuses of television's golden age. It was Weaver who invented the Today and Tonight shows and who created what he called "spectaculars" super special shows of which Ford's was the most stupendous. There were no commercials for Ford products during the program, but at one point in its cavalcade of life in the first half of the 20th century, Murrow narrated a eaturette about the Model T. At the end of the show, Henry Ford II appeared for a few awkward remarks.

As magnificent as Merman and Martin were, there was another musical highlight that had its own spellbinding impact. African-American soprano Marian Anderson, who in 1939 gave an outdoor concert at the Lincoln 29 Had creditors 30 Flanders river '31 Kind of colony 32 Gave hot pursuit 35 Hecklers' 36 Osceola, notably 39 Olive-green 40 Gift for Cher? -4 Zilch 44. Notre, r- American style 45 Malay l' outrigger 46' Set down 47 Sch. groups 43 Stagehand .50. Gift for Monica -Seles? 54 Slalom champ Phil 55 Ominous ST- Varnish substance 58 Ice-cream holders 59 Prepare to pray 60 What syne means 61 Cadge drinks 62 Burdened 63 Christmas v.

V.I.P. 64 Dune 67 Old Scratch himself 68 Gift for the gas man? 70 Curved molding 71 acte: intermission 72 Infamous Idi 73 Greek liqueur 74 Volatile fashion line 75 Brief cheer 76 Gift for Garfield? 1 2 3 1 5 16 i I 19 110 111 112 13 14 115 116 117 18 13 20 21 22 23 zT 25 26 27 28" 29 iW "IT" 323FT34 IT 36 37 138 39 40" TT" 42 43 44 45" 46 47 48 4l 50 51 1 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 ST 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 "ff 73 74 76 801bT 82 83 84 ST 86 jlT 89 90 91 If" 93 1 94 95 96 97" 98 1 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 a grainy kinescope recorded on film off a TV screen, but what a night it was. Although the program is not available on home video, a fuzzy copy of it can be viewed at the Museum of Television Radio in New York and some other archives around the country. Ford Motor Co. hired legendary producer Leland Heyward and bought two hours of air time on two networks simultaneously, NBC and CBS, to celebrate its founding 50 years earlier.

As grand gestures go, television has seen hardly anything like it before or since. Among those appearing were Edward R. Murrow, the most respected journalist ever to work in broadcasting; lyricist and author Oscar Hammerstein II; Burr Tillstrom's puppets Kukla and 01-lie; and Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who sang a 9 V2 -minute medley that brought down the house and became legendary the moment it ended. Martin and Merman were the two great ladies of musical theater at that time and by teaming them for a duet, Heyward pulled off a remarkable coup. The number's simple staging the two women sitting on stools against a bare backdrop was imitated countless times on other televi- DAILY DELIVERY The Shiny Sheet.

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