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Hallmark Hall of Fame: In a faultless presentation of the modern crime classic Dial M for Murder, Actor Maurice Evans again showed the British capacity for making the gentle art of homicide good clean fun. Once again, in a role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided that he preferred his wife's money to his wife (Rosemary Harris), then saw his plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club...
...Dial M for Methodism. In Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Robert Poston dialed a telephone number, heard a man's voice pleading for help, called police, who dialed the same number, got the "Dial-a-Prayer" service of the Catalina Methodist Church...
...thought Carroll was an M.D., he is actually a licensed drugless-healer -a "sanipractor." At his first examination (fee, $50), Carroll took a drop of blood from Doris Hull's ear, put it in his "radionic" device, twirled some knobs, concluded that he got a vibration at a dial reading of 42. To him, this indicated some form of tuberculosis...
...blip rhythms bouncing onto radar screens from a network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced by thousands of hard-hatted men, their ears attuned, their hands ready at buttons, keys, switches, knobs, cranks and valves, their eyes darting from tube to dial, their pulses shooting over the unhurried step of time. And then the fire, the roar, the chorus of triumphant cries...
...such mad trifles as her One Finger Piano Concerto, her plugs for Sponsor Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations"), her weakness for clipping her boxwood hedge with George's electric razor. In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding. In desperation, he wired Gracie: "Can't you make a living any other...