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...left no will, but now a letter has been found in his Moscow apartment describing how British Defector Guy Burgess, who died last August, wanted his estate divided up. Everything is to go to four friends, including Harold Philby, who tipped off Burgess and Donald Maclean in 1951 that the British Secret Service was closing in, then early this year himself fled to Russia. No one is saying whether Maclean was included too. The letter does not constitute a legal will, but Burgess' brother Nigel will nonetheless comply, though the spy's British holdings, worth $17,416, legally...
...WANTING SEED by Anthony Burgess. 285 pages. Norton...
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The owner of a key club and girlie mag is murdered. Suspects include Sammy Davis Jr., Burgess Meredith, Suzy Parker, Diana Dors, Arlene Dahl, John Ireland and Jan Sterling...
Britain had Burgess and MacLean, the U.S. its Rosenbergs. But for the most part Frenchmen do not spy, or at least they seldom get caught. Last week France joined the mainstream with its biggest spy case since Mata Hari. In custody for passing secrets to the Russians was a chubby, urbane press attache named Georges Paques, 49, who had served both the French High General Staff and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The case was critical because Paques held a "cosmic" security clearance-highest classification for both France and NATO. The man with the cosmic view had access to intelli...
...SUNSET STRIP (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first part of a five-hour mystery (to run for the next five weeks) with a five-hour cast that includes Burgess Meredith, Richard Conte, Wally Cox, Peter Lorre, Herbert Marshall, Joseph Schildkraut, Walter Slezak, Ed and Keenan Wynn...