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...Sawdust Trail. A Toronto boy, Templeton set pole-vaulting and track records as a schoolboy athlete, quit high school to take art lessons and play football for Toronto's Balmy Beach. At 20 he was a sports cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and syndicated in 18 papers when, as he later testified, "in the midst of my success I saw the futility of my life." That led Templeton to the further discovery that he had an electric touch with religious audiences, and he went off to spend three years on the sawdust trail as an itinerant preacher...
Since his introduction last July, the poetry-spouting crook now villainously co-starring in Chester Gould's comic strip. Dick Tracy, had been identified only by his surname: Ogden. Last week, however, Cartoonist Gould finally inked in the poet's full handle: Providence M. Ogden. In the city room of the Providence, R.I. Journal, there was as much indignation as amusement...
...ever since an unrealized ambition: "One friend of mine put it very well when he said, 'That s.o.b. has been trying to get on the stage for 40 years.' " Last week when a star of his long-running Broadway revue, A Thurber Carnival, abruptly quit, the author-cartoonist trouped into the breach. With only two rehearsals, under Director Burgess Meredith ("Now I have him at my mercy; I can tell him that as an actor he has no right to change the author's words"), Thurber played himself with fluffless finesse in a twelve-minute sketch about...
...Hunter Show (NBC), opening this week, demonstrates once again that Tab's acting range pretty much consists of a capacity to inhale and exhale through his seemingly polyethylene eye balls. As Paul Morgan, a Malibu Beach cartoonist, he is felled by one sandy starlet after another, but the word on the beach is that the whole thing is phony abalone...
...Hunter Show (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). P. Lorillard and Westclox have picked up the Tab for a new comedy series about an amiable cartoonist...