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Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "The Boyhood of William Shakespeare." adapted by Drama Critic Walter Kerr, narrated by Boris Karloff; Cleveland Amory looks at U.S. society from 1900-14; French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault and his actress-wife Madeleine Renaud in a series of sketches...
Enter, Caesar. Born in 1880, one of six children, Ivar Kreuger enjoyed a comfortable, humdrum boyhood in the forest-encircled town of Kalmar, Sweden. After cheating his way through school, and with an engineer's diploma in his pocket, Ivar began ricocheting around the globe. He did wiring jobs on Manhattan's Plaza and St. Regis Hotels, operated a restaurant -in Johannesburg. Back in Stockholm in 1908, he co-founded the building firm of Kreuger & Toll. Then he took over his family's three match factories, was shortly gobbling up competitors and building his giant Swedish match...
Wide Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). "American Riches," with Duke Ellington and his orchestra; Artist Thomas Hart Benton; a visit with Eisenhower's boyhood chums in Abilene...
...Right Man. Of all the men now living and working on the frozen continent, few are better fitted by character, inclination and background for the assignment than Siple. Even with Byrd's first expedition he quickly won his explorer's spurs. A 19-year-old whose boyhood in Erie, Pa. had centered around Scouting (he had earned 60 merit badges before joining Byrd), he was jolted but not defeated by the salty, four-letter expletives and the sloppy, earthy habits of his hardbitten shipmates on the way south. Big. strong, self-sufficient, Paul ignored them, won a spot...
...father bound books for a living, but there is no evidence that he ever opened one. Born in Cambridge, Mass, in 1894, Fred was christened John Florence Sullivan; within three years his mother was dead, and the elder Sullivan had taken to drink. One of Allen's boyhood memories is of himself and his younger brother piloting the old man home after an all-day binge: "We looked like two sardines guiding an unsteady Moby Dick into port." He took an after-school job as runner and stack boy at the Boston Public Library at 60? a night...