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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half on film and half live, usually seems deader than either, but it sat up and began to move last week with The Deadly Game, adapted by James Yaffe from a story by Friedrich Duerren-matt. A sales executive (Gary Merrill) stumbled out of a New England blizzard to find shelter in an old-fashioned mansion where four retired men in dinner jackets almost seemed to be waiting for him. They plied him with food and brandy, and he amiably agreed after dinner to join them in the parlor game that enabled them to practice once more their former professions...
Life in Brooklyn was tough enough for the Dodgers' fireballing pitcher, Don Newcombe. His good right arm ached all summer long and the doctors could find little wrong; opposition batters were beginning to tag him, and he wound up the 1957 season with a dismal record of eleven victories and twelve defeats. He was almost ready to believe the unkind critics who maintained that he lost his stuff in the clutch. Then things got worse. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, and Big Newk (6 ft. 4 in.) began to worry himself witless over the prospect of being forced...
...Transcendental trees and rocks. If he could hear sky-born music wherever he went, his friends and neighbors were less fortunate; they had to depend on the uncertain efforts of a handful of local groups, supplemented by occasional trips to Boston. In null century Concord, New Englanders do not find themselves so hampered-and Emerson would scarcely be left in peace to do his ethereal listening. Today's American, let him go where'er he will, hears the sound of music still-hardly celestial, but often sky-born...
Whatever the outcome, Bill Graham plans to haunt India next year to make sure that enterprises are started and properly run. Said he fervently: "We're going to light a fire under these Indians. Whatever happens, at least we'll find out whether or not they really want our help...
This Christmas week, as parents throng U.S. stores looking for a volume or two that might lure Junior briefly away from the TV set, their choice will be vastly broader, but they will find no mention of hellfire or corruption. About the only danger to a child's complacency is the threatened loss of Christmas-an anxiety that, surprisingly, provides the plot for three of the season's best children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost...