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...Dinner. Where was everybody? A lot of them were in Bel Air at the home of Producer Harold Mirisch, who chose this particular Monday night to throw a party. Mirisch and his spangled crowd-150 people on the level of Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Louis Jourdan-watched the show on ten TV sets while eating a catered dinner...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Britain's Grand National Steeplechase, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro as commentator; also the National Billiard Championships in New York. SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Fourteen Hours, Richard Basehart wrestles with his problems (including Barbara Bel Geddes and Paul Douglas) while poised on the 15th-floor ledge of a skyscraper...
...laryngeal ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...
...sure," one Ferrari expert predicted on the eve of the race. "Shel by can't put all that power to the road. The more power he gives the cars, the worse they handle." When the grueling, twelve-hour ordeal had ended, the Italians were hardly singing Un Bel Di. Ferrari's electric-red cars were in the top three places overall - first this year as they have been for the past three years, and for five of the last six. All three had broken the Sebring distance-covered record that Ferrari, of course, had established three years...
...Cabot Lodge; Rodman Rockefeller, 31, Nelson's oldest son, given the Chilean Order of Merit (Dad got it in 1945) for being "the kind of private businessman whose contributions, energy and ideals are so badly needed for the right development of Latin America"; Columbia University's No-bel-Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Isidor Rabi, 65, named winner of the annual $1,000 Joseph Priestley Memorial Award for "services to mankind through physics...