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...BAFFLING WORLD OF ESP (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Basil Rathbone narrates a study of extrasensory perception, using films of actual ESP experiences and lab experiments to explore telepathy, clairvoyance and the power of mind over matter. Among those interviewed are Menninger's Gardner Murphy and Yale's Henry Margenau...
Even the cast mishmashes beach and horror types. Boris Karloff plays a corpse in search of his youth; Tommy Kirk, who must be pushing 30, plays his usual teenager; Basil Rathbone, who must be 80 and sorely in need of funds, plays a conniving old lawyer; and Nancy Sinatra embodies all her father's physical attributes except his voice...
...stannous fluoride solution commonly used for painting may interfere with the absorption of fluorine, and he is casting around for a better compound. Meanwhile, he says, it helps to cover the teeth, right after painting, with a protective coat of silicone grease. A colleague, Dr. Basil Richardson, believes that the best coating is polyoxyethylene soya amine-a sort of reverse detergent to keep the saliva from washing the fluoride away...
...idol. Everywhere, audiences clamored fqr him, and the critics threw superlatives at his fingers. During World War II, he moved his family to Hollywood, bought a rambling 15-room mansion next door to Ingrid Bergman and soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo...
...being his mother, I might build up enough evidence to ask that this case be reopened." By some morbid twist, one Oswald letter from Russia expressing bitterness against the U.S. sold for $3,000 at the Manhattan autograph hawker's auction. Three letters from Jackie Kennedy to Actor Basil Rathbone went...