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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, February 14 HE'S YOUR DOG, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).* And now he's Snoopy Star -a headliner at last. Fame comes and his manners go; so Charlie B. has to send him back to Daisy Hill Puppy Farm for a refresher course in obedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. The literary critic and editor of Commentary tells of his lust for money, power and fame in this semi-autobiographical account of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Lordly might also describe his pedagogical style. For all his fame, Galbraith is regularly panned by the Harvard Crimson's Confidential Guide to undergraduate courses. "Vague platitudes on assorted cosmic questions," complains one of his students, "are apparently received through the office of divine revelation." Is he arrogant? "Oh, yes, of course," says his sister Catherine. "But his arrogance is always with tongue in cheek. It's part of his charm. He is also a kindly man, which isn't often mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Great Mogul | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...feeble clique of conventionally minor playwrights and directors. In this vacuum, the tiny semisuburban, underbudgeted Hampstead Theater Club has attracted critical notice with its recent productions of two stimulatingly offbeat dramas: Tennessee Williams' Two Character Play (TIME, Dec. 22), and its currently featured Bakke's Night of Fame by Playwright John McGrath. In the latter, the action takes place in the death cell of a U.S. prison, where Bakke, awaiting electrocution at midnight, ingeniously and humorously torments his guards, the warden and the priest who is making one last attempt to save his soul. McGrath has a rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In London: End of a Golden Age? | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Over the past thirty years, a sprinkling of American Negro athletes has achieved international fame by competing in the Olympic Games. Jesse Owens is probably the best known for his four-gold-medal performance at Adolph Hitler's Berlin Olympaid. In addition, according to a recent Ebony survey, disproportionately high numbers of Negroes compete in American professional sports...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: SPORTS of the "CRIME" | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

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