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...Robert Culp and Bill Cosby spy; Marcel Hillaire counterspies...
Moxie & Malarky. NBC's I Spy also succeeds, in part because it turns its back on the Fleming flammery, makes a hip thriller out of two CIA types touring the world as a tennis bum (Robert Culp) and his Oxford-educated Negro trainer (Bill Cosby). For all its stereotyped gunplay, the production has a style to which TV audiences should hope to become accustomed: lavish locations (Hong Kong in color for the first eight episodes), virtually choreographed direction, a swinging score, and a cant-and-cliché-free script, for which Culp doubled as author...
...Phillies have the same trouble. If Bunning could duplicate his 1964 season, (19-8), the Phils would be in good shape for pitchers. Lefthanders Chris Short (17-9) is a topflight pitcher, Ray Culp and Art Mahaffey had undistinguished rocords last year, but both have had good seasons before, and both are young. Bo Belinsky, and elderly Ray Herbert, two acquisitions from the American League, are also in the picture, and two adequate starting pitchers will undoubtedly emerge from among the four. Jack Baldschun is a capable reliever...
...biggest circulations in Texas (220,491), has of recent years quietly tended to patiently building up readership and its reputation as one of the best in the Southwest. With ailing Board Chairman and ex-Texas Governor William Pettus Hobby, 84, on the sidelines, his wife, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, 58, ran things with the same crispness that she brought to her work as wartime director of the WACs and as first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Last week the Post reached over the garden fence and, by outbidding four rivals, picked up three neighboring dailies: the morning Galveston...
...school. The young man is, in fact, William Pettus Hobby Jr., 28, who last week was named managing editor of the powerful Houston Post, which is owned and run by his parents, Texas' former Governor William P. Hobby, 82, the Post's ailing board chairman, and Oveta Culp Hobby, 55, first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Post's president and editor...