Word: bernard
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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan arrives on TV with an international cast headed by French Canadian Actress Genevieve Bujold as Joan of Arc, supported by Theodore Bikel, Maurice Evans, Roddy McDowall, Raymond Massey, Leo Genn and James Donald...
...ANTEATER NAMED ARTHUR by Bernard Waber (Houghton Mifflin; $3.25). A most engaging anteater is our Arthur: he doesn't understand his species' name ("The bird is not called a wormeater"), fusses with food, preferring brown ants to red ones, and forgets everything when he goes to school his spelling book, his pencil case, his sneakers...
...radical insights of theologians and scripture scholars. First the Roman Curia ordered a thorough study of the Dutch original to make sure that it contained no errors. Then Bishop Robert F. Joyce of Burlington, Vt., withdrew his imprimatur (permission to publish) from the American edition, and Holland's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink complained that the book was going to press with an unauthorized use of his original imprimatur. Finally, Los Angeles' crusty James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre banned it from the church-run bookstore in his archdiocese. The stores operated by Boston's Daughters of St. Paul also...
...hostess to the wittiest writers, sportsmen and politicians of her time; after a long illness; in New York. For almost three decades she presided over a dazzling salon as she and her husband mixed repartee and reason with such cronies as Al Smith, Harpo Marx, Gene Tunney, Ethel Barrymore, Bernard Baruch and Dorothy Parker, often at their Long Island mansion, which F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized as the setting for The Great Gatsby...
...Died. Bernard Kilgore, 59, president of Dow Jones & Co. from 1945 to 1966; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. The Indiana-born newsman signed on at the Wall Street Journal in 1929, made his way to the top by 1941 and thereafter transformed the parochial financial paper into one of the nation's most influential newspapers, aimed, as Kilgore liked to say, "at everyone who is engaged in making a living or is interested in how other people make a living." As the Journal rose to 1,000,000 circulation (second only to the New York Daily News), Kilgore added...