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...MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A repeat of a special (of Christmas past), with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill and Scrooge by Magoo...
...more unpopular than a major increase in interest rates on the eve of Christmas, when the average man will be borrowing money to provide gifts of joy to his wife and children. Mr. Martin's Christmas gift to the money lenders is an example of Dickens' Christmas Carol told in reverse...
...giving gifts to children and marriageable maidens. But he was also a lean and righteous priest who dispensed his gifts with an eye for punishing the unworthy as well as rewarding the virtuous. Moore's jolly, open-handed Santa changed all that. Then came Dickens and A Christmas Carol in 1843. Within 20 years-thanks in part to countless readings by Dickens himself-Bob Cratchit and his lame son, Tiny Tim, had become the heroes of the holiday, and many an otherwise prudent man plunged into debt to avoid any likeness to Scrooge...
Both publications are circulated largely on college campuses. Viet-Report, the larger of the two with a press run of 40,000, is edited by comely blonde Carol Brightman, 26, an English instructor at New York University. "U.S. policy," she charges, "is not based on reliable information. Public compliance to expansion of the war has depended on the restriction of the truth at home...
Everywhere Meg went, in fact, a varied assortment of the nation's own version of noblemen and -women were eager to greet her. In San Francisco, Hello, Dollyl's Carol Channing showed up for an English-Speaking Union luncheon, and Bullfight Expert Barnaby Conrad graced an exclusive dinner given by Socialite Whitney Warren atop Telegraph Hill. Down at the Bistro in Beverly Hills, the banquet list of Hollywood aristocrats included Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye and a couple of Queen Elizabeth's loyal subjects named Burton. Margaret promptly upset her security guards in San Francisco...