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This year's melodrama concerns the efforts of two villans to rest the ownership of the Walker Valley, Pine Bush & Pacific Railroad from a defenseless, aged widow. She, inevitably, has a beautiful daughter who, of course, figures in the dastards' ultimate goal. They do not succeed, however, thanks to the "Courage and Valor in all Things but One" (Drink) of one Truman Pendennis. Not even poor Truman ever seems really doubtful about the happy outcome, and all is well...
...West has decided that Egypt doesn't count," he grumbled recently. "Therefore, because Egypt is troublesome, they've decided to wreck Egypt and isolate us." Admitting-unlike such neutralists as India's Nehru-that Egypt and the rest of the Middle East dare not remain defenseless against Communist expansionism, Nasser nevertheless disdains any defensive handclasp with the Western powers. "We are suspicious of all the great powers," he insists...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), which switched from ABC to CBS and began a new dramatic series with The Meanest Man in the World. It was a farce about a kind young man with a mean old father who demanded that the mortgage be foreclosed on a defenseless old widow and a deserted orphan on Christmas Eve. Much of the writing was pretty good, particularly when the father was teaching his son the first principles of meanness: "Nice guys don't win ball games . . . The road to failure is paved with kind hearts . . . The good die young...
...English maidservant named Mary Fisher stood before the court of the Sultan of Turkey, as anomalous as a pair of shoes in a mosque, and told its zealous Moslem members about the virtues of Christianity. Her presence there, alone and defenseless, bore witness to the compelling nature of the Quaker "concern," a strong inward urge to take some action to meet a certain situation. Mary Fisher satisfied her concern, was respectfully heard and allowed to depart in peace...
...face squarely the issue of the squirrels. Three squirrels that had been digging at the President's putting green had been trapped by White House groundkeepers and set free in more primeval areas. Although Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger had cried out against such inhumanity to defenseless beasts (TIME, April 4), no one had forced the President to make a public statement on the issue. After he had answered questions on world affairs for nearly half an hour at his news conference last week, a reporter got around to: "Mr. President, how about the squirrels...