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...Desk Set (by William Marchant) is institutional comedy, dealing with a TV network's research department. The four women in the department-the top one being Shirley Booth-are walking information centers and phone-answering encyclopedias. But elsewhere in the organization, the human brain has been successfully replaced by electronic ones, and soon, menacing the four women's livelihood, a huge mechanical dragon appears in Research...
...concerned with a situation and can scarcely be bothered with satire; at the final curtain there is not only job security for all, but a high-placed husband (Frank Milan) for Actress Booth...
...past six years, as head of the Salvation Army's Anti-Suicide Bureau in London, he and his colleagues have helped thousands who have tried or contemplated suicide. The bureau, the army's only one of its kind, was set up in 1907 by General William Booth himself; within six years, more than 5,000 people had called at the bureau for help. Brigadier Langdon's is the only agency in Britain set up specifically to handle the problem of suicide (and accepts no women, turns them over to the army's department of Women...
...trick. "Is it empty?" he asked. "Empty, empty," came the chorused reply. "There is no cheating?" "No cheating," chanted the voters, "no cheating." Sharp at 8 a.m., the official called the name of the first voter, a wizened, crippled man of 95. He limped to the palm-leaf voting booth, spread the ballot over a sandbag, hesitated for several minutes, then carefully punched a nail through the symbol of his chosen party...
...WHRB head reported that his appeal to Dean Watson Wednesday had not succeeded in winning rights to the booth, since Johnston has final say on the matter...