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Generals may run the army, but the authority felt by the harried recruit is the rasping voice of the sergeant. Like many another veteran who has heard that voice too often, Dr. Burgess L. Gordon, Philadelphia chest specialist and onetime army colonel, is convinced that sergeants are really bad medicine...
Information Please (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). M.C.: Clifton Fadiman. Guests: Burgess Meredith. Russel Grouse...
...member of Canada's atomic spy ring; Physicist Klaus Fuchs, now serving a 14-year sentence for selling atomic secrets to Russia; Cosmic-Ray Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, who fled, presumably for Moscow, in 1930. Two other Foreign Office men, Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, who disappeared last year and have not been heard of since, are presumed to have fled beyond the Iron Curtain...
Best Plays (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Winterset, with Burgess Meredith, Maureen Stapleton...
...wined and dined Curd at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub;* 2) with the knowledge of the players, was often in contact with Curd to get the gambler's "line" on Kentucky games; 3) once bawled out a player for missing a shot that "just cost my friend, Burgess Carey, $500." In addition, Streit charged that a player was crippled for a month when coaching authorities allowed him to play on an injured ankle shot full of novocaine. "In view of his conduct," Streit observed, "Mr. Rupp's sanctimonious attitude . . . becomes ludicrous and comic...