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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Innocent Guinea Pig. Things were again stirring excitingly on the drama front. NBC's Producers' Showcase went all-out with a 90-minute color production of the 1934 Broadway play Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. In the dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes...
...best of everything anyway, are rarely involved; the struggle takes place among the vice presidents, and below. A few years ago, a Dallas company set up a new subsidiary with five brand-new vice presidents installed in identical offices. Everything was peaceful until one used his expense account to replace his single-pen set with a two-pen set. Within four days all five worked their way up to three-pen sets. Then they went on to bigger and flossier names on their doors, and other changes, until the president called a halt and broke everyone back...
Before he died at 68, Alexandre the Great wrote between 500 and 600 books and plays - an exact account is impossible. Says Biographer Maurois: "Dumas was a hero out of Dumas. As strong as Porthos, as adroit as d'Artagnan, as generous as Edmond Dantès, this superb giant strode across the 19th century breaking down doors with his shoulder . . . It is as im possible not to like him as it is not to read him . . . No one has read all of Dumas -this would be as implausible as writing it was. But most of mankind has read...
HOMECOMING, by Jiro Osaragi (303 pp.; Knopf; $3.75). Billed as a major achievement of Japan's postwar literature, the novel at its best is an unblinking account of the high cost of survival in a defeated country. At its worst, Homecoming plays the old tearjerking Enoch Arden plot to the accompaniment of samisens instead of violins. Kyogo Moriya is a fiftyish Japanese ex-naval officer who sits out the first part of World War II in self-exile in Singapore because of a youthful gambling scandal. There a svelte adventuress two-times him into jail. Back in Japan after...
...autobiography is a story without surprises, but still a sobering account of the Communist tyranny as only those who have lived under it can know...