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Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, starring Mercedes McCambridge...
Noel as a brilliant, devastating heel-a West Side version of a Scott Fitzgerald hero-rarely rings true. But his deterioration and his ultimate meaning are convincing. "He takes the current myths for solid facts," says one character about him. "It never occurs to him that the Oedipus complex really doesn't exist, that it is a piece of moralistic literature. He's as orthodox as your own father, Marjorie, in his fashion . . . making a life's work out of being dogmatic, clever, supercilious-and inwardly totally confused and wretched...
...Appointment of the week: Edward H. Litchfield, 41, dean of Cornell's School of Business and Public Administration, to succeed Rufus H. Fitzgerald as twelfth chancellor of the big (16,000 students) University of Pittsburgh. The new chancellor's main job: to put through a ten-year development program that may cost as much as $100 million...
Colgate Variety Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb conducts a celebration of Dixieland jazz, starring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee. Janet Leigh...
When the sanitarium caught fire, Zelda died in the flames. At 39, Fitzgerald "suddenly realized that I had prematurely cracked, cracked like an old plate." He recovered enough to write part of a novel about Hollywood, The Last Tycoon, which might have been his masterpiece. But when he had reached the middle of chapter six, a heart attack ended his life at 44. Almost nobody came to the bare funeral home where his body lay. But his old friend Dorothy Parker did. Her hard-boiled epitaph, too strong for last week's radio show, echoed Fitzgerald...