Word: egghead
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...worth his whisky as an all-round actor (he is currently playing Lincoln in the Broadway production of The Rivalry). The name of his TV character, Paladin, is meant to suggest a knight errant. But the hero of Have Gun, Witt Travel is actually just a hard-boiled egghead, western style, who spouts Shakespeare while the lead flies, smokes 58? cigars, advises the public to "try marinating venison in whisky." He is a private eye in peewees, and though he always brings the villain to account, he usually tempers justice with money. At 41, bulb-nosed, thrice-married Actor Boone...
...book, The Professor and I (Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.95), Dorothy Van Doren reveals that her husband is an addict "not of the super, the egghead, type of program . . . but of mysteries, westerns, crime stories, true stories and a quiz or two. He is lost. I get myself comfortable on the living-room sofa by the fire with a book, and presently I hear the beginning of the idiot commercial and know it has started again. Sometimes I watch too; sometimes I stick to the book. But the professor is faithful-all too often he is faithful. One evening there...
...trend, maybe a revolution," marveled Barber Virgil Sherman Holycross, 59, patient servant of teen-age fads for 35 years. "Maybe they all want to look like they're learning to build a Sputnik." "It's sort of like a compromise between being a punk and an egghead," explained Central High Senior Larry Cornine, 17. "Personally I don't want to look like either." But Forrest Reno, 19, recent ducktail convert to the Princeton cut, plays it cool. "How else can you comb your hair with the palm of your hand." he asks, "and have it look...
...Senator Thye, 62, two-term Eisenhower Republican incumbent, had a great personal following of fellow Scandinavians, fellow Lutherans, fellow farmers; the D.F.L.'s challenger Gene McCarthy, onetime St. John's University economics professor and ten-year Congressman, was 1) a Catholic, and 2) an all-too-arch egghead type from St. Paul who might just get massacred by Ed Thye in the farm counties. The D.F.L. decided that folksy Governor Freeman, a lead-pipe cinch for reelection, would give up some of his anticipated 200,000 majority to concentrate on working for Gene McCarthy in what Master Planner...
...interview after a Friday appearance on WJAR-TV, in "The World Around Us" series, Tillich expressed his opinion that the violence was an indication of a search for a scapegoat, and a rebellion against the "egghead...