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...offscreen all the time. In Robert Alan Aurthur's Tale. of the Comet, Studio One offered a case history of the TV comic as a tragic hero-a lonely figure tortured by self-defeating uncertainty amid the debris of his fallen ratings. Tim Tully is a onetime top banana who trampled 19 writers in three seasons in his frenzy to stop slipping. As the play opens, he is on the eve of an attempted comeback that seems doomed by his panicky fear of failure. In a series of skillfully managed flashbacks, Tully tells where the skids...
...seventh year of Indonesian independence drew to a close, the world's fourth largest democracy (pop. 80 million) was behaving something like a banana republic. "I am certain," said Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno, in a sharp departure from his customary exuberance, "that if this sickly situation persists, conditions will become ripe for a revolution...
Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...very doubtful that the Xolos were stuffed with bananas in pre-Spanish times. The best authorities believe that the banana was introduced to this hemisphere after 1492. Yes, we had no bananas before Columbus discovered...
Married. Phil Silvers, 44, comic of stage (Top Banana, 1951-53) and TV (Sergeant Bilko); and Evelyn Patrick, 23, the sugar-coating on The $64,000 Question's commercials; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Haven, Conn...