Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the only life the hustler sees consists of shaded light on the brushed green cloth, the movement of balls elegantly cued, the sensuous dropping of globes into pockets. When it is over, win or lose, he wanders out into the streets that are usually slummy and unfriendly and back to a hotel room whose look and cost closely reflect his recent successes or failures...
...that he has "groups of toes like uncooked sausages." Baby lives with his neurotic Mom; they rove from city to city, endlessly drowning their despondency in capsules of phenobarbital. The Sleep describes how Baby takes a brief waddle down Broadway, stumbles half-comatose into an automobile, weaves back home unscathed, and collapses into the miseries of natural sleep (he dreams that a fat gypsy squaw castrates him with a silver-bladed bread knife). Finally, he swallows the magic "pheeny" that returns him to the blissful, dreamless condition of "some giant foetus...
...drums, with Indian pickets waving slogans -MISSIONARIES GO HOME. Her sister and brother-in-law tell the story behind the commotion. Eight years before, they adopted an unwanted, illegitimate Indian infant and raised him as one of their own family. Now the Indian father, a merchant, is demanding him back, and missionaries and merchants are grappling in a legal battle that dredges up the deepest, ugliest emotions...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Lightfoot Fred Astaire, who triumphed in his NBC song-and-dance show last fall, comes back to television in a straight acting part. His vehicle: Man on a Bicycle, a comedy about a gallant rogue...
...scuttles back and forth between her American in-laws and the Indian claimant, sister Beth finds a romantic solution that makes everyone happy-so happy that Elephant Hill's Dickensian climax reads far too untrue to be good. Luckily, this is not the case with a preceding string of incidents that show Author White in his liveliest vein, e.g., an Indian amateur production of Samson and Delilah (featured as Delilah and Simpson, or The Strong Man of Whiskers Reduced by Reason of Passions). Another high point is the long-dreaded moment when the missionaries tell their adopted...