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...strikes against it for a mass audience, since 1) it was about poets and poetry, 2) its problem could have been solved at any time merely by the heroine's walking out on her domineering father, 3) it had been seen on CBS-TV (with Geraldine Fitzgerald and Sir Cedric Hardwicke) as recently as last summer. All these difficulties were overcome, to hold absorbed some 28 million viewers-more people than Katharine Cornell has played to in her long theatrical career...
...Baltimore Sunpapers. He was the forward lance in the march of American letters from John Fox Jr. (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come) to Sinclair Lewis, helped kill off much of the trash in American writing. Many of the best U.S. writers of the century (Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart Set (1914-23) and the old American Mercury (1924-33). He took out after U.S. criticism, which he said "smells of the pulpit, the chautauqua, the schoolroom...
...best Dragnet fashion. Detectives Charles Fitzgerald and Herbert Wilk got her picture identified, discovered her modus operandi, and put a stakeout on her neighborhood. Maggie, meanwhile, decided to lie low, after a $500 score in an A. & P. market last August. She went to Miami for a while, then to Las Vegas, finally settled down as a waitress in Galveston's redlight district. She got a little nervous there, mostly because she had to serve a lot of big Texas cops. Once she even went out on a date with a cop: "I wasn't much...
...when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave, Hermione Gingold, Walter Fitzgerald) that made the conceits and posturings of Restoration comedy as palatable as they are ever likely to be on television...
Papa Married a Mormon, by John D. Fitzgerald. A pleasant, mock-bucolic Western memoir in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six-guns (TIME...