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Television's Maude is an erratic woman, occasionally daffy, but is she a manic-depressive? And in this week's episode, does she actually take lithium carbonate, hailed by one specialist as "the first wonder drug of psychiatry"? Only her doctor knows for sure. Her scriptwriters don'...
Wodehouse-the P.G. stood for Pelham Grenville-had no halfhearted readers. He was either admired to the point of addiction or not admired at all. Like all fanatics, Wodehouse readers could only feel sorry for those who lacked the special sense of humor that allowed them to wander through the...
Died. Jay Hanna ("Dizzy") Dean, 63, Hall of Fame pitcher and language-mangling sportscaster; of a heart attack; in Reno. Son of an Okie sharecropper, Dean was scouted off a Texas sandlot, and won 18 games in 1932, his first full year with the St. Louis Cardinals. Two years later...
His most fruitful years were with Warner Bros, in the '40s and '50s, when he played stepfather to existing characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and created such new ones as a warring Bear Family, a libidinous skunk called Pepe le Pew and, above all, the most...
At the Warner Bros, animation unit -called with affection and realism "Termite Terrace"-the artists seemed to share the same zany verve that char acterized their creations. One of Jones' co-workers used a heating element and zinc-lined drawers to make his desk into a hot-dog stand...