Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Check local listings for date and time: NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "Thirteen Against Fate: The Lodger," first in a series of Georges Simenon mysteries, tells the story of a family that discovers one of its favorite boarders is a murderer, but cannot bear to turn him in to the police...
...writer) named Paul Dehn, who based his freewheeling lyrics on Chekhov's farce. Walton's eclectic styles are more than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal wit. Widow Popova's complaints about her dead husband ("What could a poor, weak woman do / But humor his caprices,/ When acts more suited to a zoo / Took place...
...arrive. At week's end, the first of about 3,000 Soviet forces crossed the Russian border into eastern Slovakia even as the Central Committee was in session. Many Czechoslovaks were alarmed, seeing their coming as an unsubtle attempt to influence the committee while it was debating the fate of the pro-Soviet conservatives...
...CREATIVE PERSON: "Georges Simenon." A documentary about the prolific French novelist and author of the famous Inspector Maigret detective stories. A selection of Simenon's works will be dramatized on a NET Playhouse series. Thirteen Against Fate premieres next week...
...illicit excitement about the book. Victor Louis, a Moscow-based journalist who has run such other errands for the Russian government as selling a copy of Svetlana Alliluyeva's Twenty Letters to a Friend before its authorized publication, delivered a manuscript to London's Flegon Press; its fate is still uncertain...