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Family Circle (weekdays 3 p.m., ABC) is a collection of songs, verse, interviews and chatter, propelled through the wasteland of daytime radio by a glib and determinedly jolly M.C. named Walter Kiernan. Typical guest: Actress Sarah Churchill, who was allowed to tell the plot of her current Broadway show, Gramercy Ghost. In exchange, Kiernan asked how her father, Winston Churchill, felt about her becoming an actress ("he thought it was a whim...
Though he is clearly talented, Novelist Ayer has written a book that is long on artiness and short on life, full of mincing chatter and burdened with too complex a structure. His final approach to his people is as simple and inadequate as a cliche: the rich, he feels, stink. This may or may not be true, but his novel never gets close enough to his people to prove it. What was meant as a clever portrait of social decay pretty much ends as a mannered exercise in claustrophobia...
...four days of sunny weather before the rains came, allied airmen flew round the clock. The Chinese apparently did not dare lose momentum by holing up during the day, and the U.N. pilots caught them on roads and in fields. The air was full of plane-to-plane chatter as pilots identified friendly forces, picked up enemy targets and divided up the work...
...music. The gardenia-scented lobby and transformed first floor (chairs and tables instead of conventional scats) bring to Symphony Hall an intimate, informal atmosphere which has been often copied but never duplicated. And when the music starts, competing against the incessant pop of champagne bottles and the gay chatter of the audience, there can be little doubt that the concert is nothing more than a musical party...
What kind of chatter is this about "discriminatory" scholarships" When did it become popular to tell people they can't give gifts to the person or persons they want to get them? Whose business is it whether Mrs. Day gives a gift to Anglo-Saxons, to Jews, to people from New England, or to people named Murphy...