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...Cantor does avoid the tension involved in live TV performances in his shows. ("Ida's feeling was that she'd rather have a live husband.") Actor Lee (Death of a Salesman) Cobb suffered his second attack last June, plans to return to work this week. Charles Henry ("Doc") Strub, managing director of California's Santa Anita race track, has survived three heart attacks and, apparently hale and hearty, at 71, feels "better today than I've felt for the last 15 or 20 years." His last seizure was in 1945. Says Strub: "I drink only moderately...
...unassuming hero of this leisurely, likeable group is the Doc, played powerfully by bearded William Johnson, who, incidentally, gives his best singing performance to date. The Doc likes to putter around with biological specimens which he captivates in his homemade "Western Bio Laboratory." The most unmanageable turns out to be lovely Judy Tyler (Suzy), who makes a winning debut with her fine voice and appealing stage presence...
Only slightly less decorous characters are the boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...
...clock the loudspeakers told the crowd to split into three groups. One moved along broad Nguyen Hue Boulevard. The second marched to Doc Lap Palace to cheer Premier Ngo Dinh Diem...
Through the winter, young Bertrand Peyrelongue gazed at the vineyards surrounding his ancient château on the Gironde and mourned the lost days when fine wines were treated with the respect they deserved. Those were the days when the vineyard patrons of the sun-kissed Médoc district personally carried their finest Bordeaux vintages across the Channel and sold them at a Thames quayside to discriminating London vintners. "A good wine," sad Bertrand, "should have personal attention. It is a patron's duty." As spring's tender new shoots peeped from the wintry canes...