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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
Playhouse 90: Daphne du Maurier's gothic tales would appear to be packed with protein for TV drama. They are well fused, charged with suspense and athrob with elemental passions. One of the best, The Little Photographer, tells a brooding crime story about a beautiful marquise who dallies in the bracken with an impoverished young photographer, then shoves him off a cliff to a Mediterranean grave. In the televersion, retitled The Violent Heart by Adapter Leslie Stevens, the little photographer (Ben Gazzara) died when he accidentally crashed through the balustrade of a Riviera ruin. This sapped the story...
Armstrong Circle Theater: This CBS regular has grappled with a series of difficult subjects, e.g., the Dead Sea Scrolls, and produced a series of earnest failures. Last week Armstrong deftly dodged the main issue of a most unlikely topic and pulled off one of the best shows of its season. The subject: The New Class, the anti-Communist political tract by Recanting Red Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav long beleaguered and now in prison for turning on the party and Dictator Tito. Armstrong's program-saving trick was to ignore the dialectic of the book, concentrate instead on the spectacle...
...GIVEAWAY, a 300,000-entry employee contest, will pay $500,000 for best letters on what automaker's first 50 years have meant to workers, their families and communities. First of some 5,000 prizes is $35,000 house...
Died. Lew Brown (real name: Louis Brownstein), 64, Russian-born songwriter (with Buddy De Sylva and Ray Henderson) of top hits (Button Up Your Overcoat, The Best Things in Life Are Free)', of a heart attack; in Manhattan...