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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). The Late Christopher Bean, starring Helen Hayes...
...dropped their old pre-Korea attacks on "governmental regimentation and creeping socialism" in favor of the new war issues. It was very easy to point to the "Failure" of foreign policy and defense policy, to military unpreparedness, and to the "disclosures" of communism in the U.S. government. Louis H. Bean, the only forecaster who was right in 1948, wouldn't predict an all out GOP victory, but he clearly suggested that Korea had given the Republicans their one real chance...
...cross the enemy 20 yard line. This failure was not necessarily due to the lack of hard running, but rather to sloppy ball handling. Crimson backs were frequently trapped behind the line, and on other occasions when they did reach open ground, the ball looked like a Mexican jumping bean...
Publicityman Wood didn't seem to mind that a lot of people knew about his stunt. He was confident that, within a few years, nobody would care very much how the old Bean Pot Tradition did start...
Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...