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Eight days after the disastrous Harvard-Yale game, Brian Dowling won a minor victory in Boston as the Gridiron Club named him winner of the annual George "Bulger" Lowe award as New England's outstanding college football player. Dowling will come back to Boston on Dec. 10 to receive the award at a banquet...
...THANKSGIVING VISITOR (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Something of a sequel to Truman Capote's award-winning "A Christmas Memory" stars Geraldine Page in an affecting tale about the meaning of Thanksgiving. Produced, directed and adapted by Frank and Eleanor Perry (David and Lisa), and Capote...
Five U.S. Army veterans of Viet Nam stood before their Commander in Chief in the White House last week to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor. Lyndon Johnson chose the occasion to caution that "other bitter days and other battles still lie ahead." He added: "I cannot emphasize strongly enough that we have not attained peace-only the possibility of peace...
...been an Emily Dickinson in another culture." In the simple TV tale, she coddles young "Buddy" (as Capote is called) and tries to shield him from his dour and insensitive relatives in the parentless household. The casting, supervised by the author, is impeccable. Geraldine Page, who won an Emmy award as Miss Sook in Christmas Memory, returns in what Capote calls "one of the greatest performances I've ever seen." Michael Kearney, 13, is a touching and believable young Truman. The narrator is Capote himself-squeaky-voiced, but obviously authentic...
...past two years, Truman Capote has become a strikingly successful light industry for the ABC network. His programs have won four Emmies and a Peabody award. Among the Paths to Eden, a bizarre, lovely tale set in a New York City cemetery, was on ABC last year (TIME, Dec. 29). Capote adapted Laura for the first (and farewell) TV performance of his friend Lee Bouvier Radziwill; it gained no Emmies, but good Nielsens. And Miriam, a TV film based on an early short story, will run next year...