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...Pros. Mr. Smith is back in Washington, more or less. Lifting the title of the old Jimmy Stewart movie, NBC has turned Smith into a "dip me in butter and fry me for a catfish" type, giving the role to Fess Parker. It maybe-to borrow a line from its own dialogue-"in more hot water than a washcloth." Another old movie, Going My Way, is now a TV series (ABC), with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll doing nicely as Father Bing Crosby and Father Barry Fitzgerald. In other seasons, a cassock opera like this one might have stood...
Taft is the only one of four brothers to enter politics,* and his performance in his first statewide campaign was impressive. He drew 507,635 votes, more than ten times those of his only G.O.P. opponent, State Senator Thomas Lowell Fess, who is also the son of a onetime U.S. Senator. Taft will be a heavy favorite in November to defeat Kennedy, whose 113,478 votes barely topped a field of eleven Democrats. While some of the Democrats were respectable candidates who campaigned hard, Kennedy, 38, spent only $300, rarely made a speech, even used leaflets sparingly. "The few mailings...
...Married. Fess Parker, 35, TV's dashing Davy Crockett; and Marcie Rinehart, 31, his onetime secretary; both for the first time; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). For a musical salute to Ethel Merman's career, Merman on Broadway collected Tab Hunter, Fess Parker and Tom Poston. Color...
...widespread stride of a U.C.L.A. halfback). But with patience and Parker working hand in glove, the boy is soon dolled up in pale blue breeches, reading from the Beatitudes and gazing blankly at a wide-eyed bit of fluff (Broadway's Carol Lynley) from across the road. Fess himself makes sheep's eyes at the preacher's daughter (Joanne...