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...college Mollie embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
...lawyer suing to rescind Bertrand Russell's teaching appointment in New York described Russell's writings as lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, untruthful, and bereft of moral fiber." The lawyer won his case...
...school debate over which of four prominent men should be jettisoned to save a sinking balloon, Billionaire U.S. Oilman J. Paul Getty promptly supplied his paladin with a suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came the hard sell: "I probably pay more taxes in more countries than anyone...
Wisdom (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). A conversation with Bertrand Russell. Repeat...
...revealing angular lights in his prismatic mind, and Olga Carlisle lets Ilya Ehrenburg reveal his rich store of platitude. In Contact the bitterly brilliant Philip O'Connor presents a series of capsule interviews with aging writers of the British Establishment, "gentlemen in and out of letters," ranging from Bertrand Russell to Poet-Essayist Herbert Read. And in Evergreen Robert Stromberg shows another side of the late maligned (and malignable) Louis-Ferdinand Céline...