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Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A young architect attempts to replace his dead father as a circus magician in Turn the Key Deftly, an original mystery by Alfred Bester, with Julie Harris, Francis Lederer and Maximilian Schell. Color...
...Detroit officers, Illustrious Potentate Herbert E. Payne Jr. and Chief Rabban J. Murray Brown, had been suspended for unfraternal conduct. By Shrine standards, their sins were grievous: Payne had "mishandled a recent Temple business session"; and Brown had allowed "unauthorized persons to sign contracts for the annual Shrine circus" in Detroit...
...leer that "lit up the whole theater"; livened the dated comedies of Sheridan and Congreve with such earthy humor that critics acclaimed him the "funniest clown in the world"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After struggling to the top through the rich medium of vaudeville, circus, burlesque, Bobby ad-libbed through a series of revivals that were not worth reviving without him. In Victor Herbert's Sweethearts, he confided to the audience: "Never was a thin plot so complicated." When informed in Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman that the alphabet is divided into vowels and consonants...
Died. Felix Adler, 62, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus clown who kept U.S. children laughing for 50 years as he waddled about with his bulbous, red-lighted nose, played the Big Bad Wolf while pigs he trained danced on their hind legs around him; after surgery; in Manhattan...
...biggest booms in the nation comes from all those businessmen who are getting up to speak. Many an executive is as talky as a circus barker, while his corporation spends huge sums for scriptwriters and speech courses (typical price: $400 for a ten-day session at U.C.L.A.). This year 50,000 bright young men from General Motors, RCA, Coca-Cola and other corporations will enroll in Dale Carnegie speech schools, where they hope to learn how to win sales and influence customers. More important, most businessmen know that they must do a far better job of explaining their beliefs...