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Hoffa's House heads included such lib eral Democrats as Oregon's Edith Green (her sins: being Kennedy's Oregon cam paign manager and her "ugly" role on the House Labor Committee). Missouri's Richard Boiling ("bad actor"), Michigan's James O'Hara ("bad actor"), and Indiana's John Brademas ("bad actor...
...Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame was the Show of the Month (CBS), skillfully adapted and powerfully acted. With angular hulkiness, Sterling Hayden as Ethan, the Yankee farmer, all but invented a cubist style of acting. Caught in a nightmare marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Sailor Sterling Hayden, home from the South Seas to straighten out his own marital tangle, stars in Ethan Frame, Edith Wharton's story of marital and extramarital troubles in 19th century New England. Costars: Julie Harris and Clarice Blackburn...
Born. To Brenda Lewis, 38, Metropolitan Opera soprano, and Benjamin Cooper, consulting engineer: their first child, a daughter (Soprano Lewis has two sons by an earlier marriage); in Norwalk, Conn. Name: Edith Maureen. Weight...
...Author Edith de Born, fiftyish, is herself Viennese, lives in Belgium as the wife of a French banker. She writes in a rather stiff English that never conveys the cozy, weary sloppiness of Viennese upper-class slang. And many cliches of her adopted language apparently still strike her as fresh; too often her characters "champ at the bit" or find troubles weighing on them "like a millstone." To Author de Born's credit, her characterization is not nearly so cliché-ridden as her language. The sad pleasures of between-wars Vienna, the long afternoons of penurious idleness...