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...some point of adolescence, every schoolboy falls distantly in love with an actress. Few do as complete a job as Anthony, the downbeat narrator of this new novel, who carries the torch for his actress over a stretch of 18 years and then, lamentably, achieves gratification...
High-Riding & Downbeat. To the surprise of the critics and even the network brass, the people mainly want to watch westerns. And so horse operas fill half of Nielsen's latest list of the nation's ten top-rated shows. No. 1: CBS's Gunsmoke, starring big (6 ft. 6 in., 220 Ibs.) James Arness. Every one of the 21 westerns that opened the season is still going strong, another will probably be trotted out this winter, and at least three others are champing to cut loose next fall...
Both the high-riding westerns and the downbeat singers reflect a certain hardening of TV's arteries. The formats have jelled; the entertainment too often looks as mass-produced as the receivers. Production has shifted steadily to Hollywood, where the film factories grind out series after series like links of sausage. Despite its uneven quality this season, Playhouse go proves that Hollywood TV can turn out good live drama as well. But with the move of CBS's Studio One to Hollywood this month, live TV drama has lost almost the last of the roots that nourished...
...podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It was the climactic moment of a current London Beethoven cycle, and once he began to conduct, he was hardly recognizable as the same man who had painfully shuffled toward the center of the stage...
Much of the gloom has come from the financial pages of the daily papers, whose headlines tend to magnify any slowdown out of all proportion. One day last week, for example, the downbeat Wall Street Journal filled its front page with news of lower auto production, a reduction in electric power use, reports of low earnings and reduced dividends by four companies. Buried in the back pages were the first-quarter reports of 58 other companies, half of which had higher, or record, earnings. The same pessimism is shown by many other financial reporters. When University of Illinois Economist...