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...Gomer Pyle, The Farmer's Daughter, Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Walt Disney and Bewitched. There was Red Skelton, now in his 12th year and ranked No. 6. And back into the lead surged CBS,* which is still indebted to its fired ex-president, James Aubrey, for almost all of its current programming, including six out of the top nine...
...advanced that its experts had apparently noted a phenomenon undetected even by modern astronomers: eclipses of the moon occur in cycles of 56 years. Hawkins, who inadvertent'v rediscovered the cycle after running Stonehenge eclipse data throuah a computer, immediately associated it with a mysterious circle of 56 "Aubrey" holes that ring the massive arches. He concluded that the holes formed a primitive eclipse computer. By placing a stone in each of six appropriate holes and moving them at appropriate times one hole around the circle, he decided, the Stonehenge astronomers had probably been able to tell accurately...
...CONSPIRACY OF WOMEN by Aubrey Menen. 244 pages. Random House...
This catty little chat between two celebrated sissies of antiquity occupies the first seven lines of a new novel by Aubrey Menen, and suggests that the well-known Indo-Irish satirist (The Prevalence of Witches) has once again produced a witty, gritty demonstration of what grubby rogues and/or endearing fools most mortals be. What follows, unfortunately, is a limply whimsical succession of skits that describe how Alexander conquered the world but lost the war between men and women...
...York World's Fair's doldrums ("They've got a belly dancer at the Moroccan Pavilion now, but she has a cobweb in her navel"), or satirizing TV ("The television business is tough, as I was saying just the other day to my waiter, Jim Aubrey...