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Miss America Pageant (CBS, 9:30 p.m.-12 midnight). The breathless finale of the annual contest, from Atlantic City...
...Before a breathless CBS-TV audience, Hearst Newspapers National Editor Frank Conniff and his editor in chief totted up the expense-account tariff for their "Task Force" crusades in Europe (TIME, June 30). On the three-man, three-week, 1955 Moscow junket alone, estimated Visiting Firebrand William Randolph Hearst Jr., the tab averaged $1,000 a day. "On the other hand," prompted Fellow Journeyman Conniff, "the caviar was good, and they had a certain liquid there that didn't hurt either...
...ensuing contest with "A great actress? Perhaps net yet. But beneath the glycerine tears, what a lovely face, what carnal splendor, what a future!" Opening this month in a new Franco-Italian film called Le Bel Antonio, she is currently working as a gypsy opposite Jean-Paul (Breathless) Belmondo in a picture called Cartouche, now being shot in Languedoc. Along the way, she has even developed a professional philosophy: "If only one spectator were to see me. I would die of shame; but I have no modesty before dozens of thousands...
...Acting is behind me forever," replies Lisa-but she is not completely right. Though she is a long way from The Edge of Night and As the World Turns, she still puts the soap-operatic arts to good use. Last week she was on the air seven times with breathless reports on everything from a welfare hassle in Newburgh. N.Y., to the problems of the Post Office. Though lacking polish and a real reporter's knack for the trenchant question, she packs plenty of punch: a mixture of sass, brass and self-confidence wrapped in a package guaranteed...
DRAMA. The only survivors are the Pulitzer-prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...