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Bing Crosby Special (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Myopic viewers may think they are seeing double when sons Philip and Dennis come on to give Daddy a hand, but anyone can recognize the Old Groaner's voice. Jim (Maverick) Garner and Rosemary Clooney join the Crosby clan...
...Manhattan's off-Broadway Royal Playhouse, Anna's little breadwinner is on the boards again, in its first New York revival since 1924. With riotous good faith and not the hint of a blush, Fashion trots out the family Tiffany, a nouveau riche clan headed by a mother given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant...
Mirrored in the watchful faces of the gathering Communist clan was the realization that the 21st Party Congress could well prove as momentous as the 20th Congress three years ago. at which Khrushchev tearfully and historically denounced Stalin. For weeks past, ominous hints have been gathering that Khrushchev might use the occasion to deal a final blow to his disgraced foes -the "antiparty group" composed of Malenkov, Bulganin. Molotov, Shepilov and Kaganovich. In the usual Communist technique, a crime has to be found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem...
...Boone Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Bing's youngest, at five months, still lacks the necessary laryngeal nodes, but the first shift (Gary, Dennis, Philip and Lindsay) groan as only the Crosby clan...
...devoted to his daughter Anne (who was born sickly and died in 1948), he and Madame de Gaulle have founded in her memory an institution for retarded children. At the 14-room house in Colombey, where he still spends his weekends, he loves to play the patriarch of the clan, gathering about him his naval officer son Philippe, his daughter Elizabeth (married to an army officer), his three grandchildren, and as many as possible of his 17 nieces and nephews and innumerable grandnieces and grandnephews. To the children, he is benign, loving "Uncle Charles...