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...matter that the fellow is under indictment for conspiracy, fraud, theft and tax evasion. Some of the folks in Ocean City, Md., think he'd make a dandy mayor, being such a famous local innkeeper and all. But, said Bobby Baker, 37, bustling around his ocean-side Carousel Motel, "I'm not a candidate for anything. I've got more problems than I can say grace over." Lyndon Johnson's former protege is awfully civic-minded, though. He thinks the Federal Government, for example, ought to develop nearby Assateague Island into "a major recreation center." Baker...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Carousel, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, given a Hollywood spin by Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones...
...Secretary (and Lyndon Johnson protege) Bobby Baker, who took the Fifth Amendment 22 times in 50 minutes while testifying at the 1964 Senate investigation of his tangled finances; of injuries received when the light plane in which she was a passenger crashed into the ocean near Baker's Carousel Motel in Ocean City...
Marc Blitzstein's musical The Cradle Will Rock after all these years has been equaled only by Carousel, The Golden Apple, West Side Story and perhaps one or two others. It is enjoying a buoyant resurrection (at Theatre Four) under the direction of Howard Da Silva, who was in the original production and has been associated with every one of its revivals since. As on that notorious and scandalous opening night in 1938, only a piano is used. No orchestra is really needed; the work's that good. And if you haven't seen Tom Jones' and Harvey Schmidt...
...hours hunched over on his bunk playing solitaire. Ruby has tried three times to kill himself-by battering his head against a wall, ripping up his trousers to make a noose, and poking his finger in an electric light socket. Ruby's onetime pride and joy, the tawdry Carousel Club, has been sold, and Mrs. Grant says the family is nearly broke. Ruby's attorney, Phil Burleson, last week filed a 6,341-page appeal and transcript of Ruby's trial in hopes that the state Court of Criminal Appeals would grant another hearing-possibly in February...