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...Pont Show of the Week (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Courtroom drama of a British M.P. trying to hide a blot on his war record. Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown...
...could be holding forth at a cafe, and however brilliantly or passionately he talked, his pen would begin doodling as if it had a brain of its own. "How many times," said his friend, Novelist Theophile Gautier, "have we not watched with astonished gaze the transformation of a blot of ink or coffee on the back of an envelope into a landscape, a castle, a seascape of amazing originality...
Living High. The newspapers themselves accounted for the biggest blot of red ink: a $101,200,000 loss in sales and ad revenue by the beginning of last week. Salary losses came to $50 million, though the 3,000 printers who started the whole thing continued to live relatively high on a combination of strike benefits and unemployment insurance that averaged $121 a week-which is more than many of the 20,000 idled employees make even when they are working...
Last week at the New York Athletic Club meet in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the U.S.S.R.'s handsome High Jumper Valery Brumel, 20, was out to avenge a minor blot on his otherwise sterling record. The week before, the U.S.'s John Thomas beat him for the first time in eight tries. Thomas was not around for the N.Y.A.C. meet, but Brumel gave him something to think about anyway. Brumel skimmed 7 ft. 2 in., then called for the bar to be lifted to 7 ft. 4 in., a half-inch better than the indoor record...
...Burckhardt open before them. Through the main arch he could just make out the automatic lady in the Widener Room reciting her litany of shipwreck and bookish treasure to yet another tourist. She stood secure as any beadsman, knowing that no Philistine administrator would ever violate her walls or blot out her sun. The Widener deed of gift would forbid such ignoble intrusions upon the Room, and even the new addition could fill the court only as high as her window sills...