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...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). For the fifth straight year, as the holiday season approaches, CBS whips up the old twister and brings back the M-G-M movie with Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger and Billie Burke...
This seemed true enough until King Al bert I slipped out of his jail last month and fled back to his little Kasai capital of Bakwanga. At last Adoula decided to act. ordered a group of army officers to fly off to Bakwanga and take over. It was easy, for a restive and well-bribed faction of Kalonji's own troops quickly joined the invaders. King Albert once again made his getaway; according to rumor, he took three cases of diamonds with him. At week's end the fleeing monarch turned up in Katanga, presumably getting sympathy from...
...Crimson recovered quickly. Midway in the first period half back Hobie Armstrong scored on a 29 yard run through the middle of the Crusader line. But the score was called back because of an offside penalty. Nine plays later Ravenel threw a pass to end Bert Mesenbaugh, who stepped over the line for six points. A conversion by Dave Ward put the Crimson ahead...
...spots are only an appetizer. Next on the program is a ripsnorting public feud between Gibbs and the Piel brothers. Sound trucks, skywriters and posters will plaster New York with the cabalistic exhortation "B. B. B. & H." (for "Bring Back Bert and Harry"). Next month Gibbs will take on the brothers in three radio debates. Predictably raucous, Bert Piel will charge: "That pantywaist Gibbs doesn't even like beer. If you put an olive in it, he might drink...
Ultimately, Bert and Harry fans will be urged to choose between Gibbs and the brothers on handy ballots at taverns and supermarkets. The outcome is hardly in doubt. But even after Bert and Harry are back, one problem will remain. Their old cartoons delighted audiences, but from 1958 on did not sell much beer. Now, with Piel's fighting to hold its place as the fourth-selling beer in New York,* Bert and Harry Piel's spiel may be a little hard er. As Bert will say after the election: "The free ride is over. All hitchhikers...