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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* "Soldier in Love," an original drama set in 18th century England that recounts the story of Sir Winston Churchill's ancestors John and Sarah Churchill, who married to the dismay of their respective families but to the delight of Queen Anne. Starring Jean Simmons, Claire Bloom, Keith Michell, Basil Rathbone and Roy Poole...
Died. Henry ("Red") Allen, 59, husky-voiced Negro singer and jazz trumpeter, who started playing the horn at eight in his father's New Orleans marching band, wailed his way to fame as a sideman and soloist with King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and '30s, later formed his own group, became a fixture at Manhattan's Metropole Cafe and Newport Jazz Festivals; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Gary Player carries a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking around in his golf bag - and over the years has won the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Masters and the P.G.A. The newest advocate of Peale Power is Texan Gay Brewer Jr., 35, whose major claim to fame is that he has found more ways to lose tournaments than any other player in the game...
...final vow-taking, his elder brother Patrick, a London publisher and one of the most cheerfully decadent characters in recent fiction, appears at Oliver's monastery by the Ganges. Unable to leave so much integrity untouched, Patrick tempts Oliver with prospects of money and fame, hints that his wife and even he himself would be available for Oliver's pleasure...
Finally, there were the rookies; and their flirtation with fame may very well end as soon as the pitchers throw them a few "jugs"-curves. But so far, at least, the 1967 harvest looks like a bumper crop...