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With these perceptive lines, punctuated by the frayed, nostalgic jazz of the 1920s, NBC-Radio News last week opened an hour-long Biographies in Sound (Tues. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It proved to be a poignant re-creation of the tragic life and happy times of one of the most gifted American writers of the 20th century. It also showed off radio at its nonvisual, imaginative best. In the same field, television, with all its gaudy resources, might have distorted a story that simple words and music truly evoked. Biographies, a sustaining show with a tiny budget...
Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Dance by F. Scott Fitzgerald, starring Janet Blair, Vanessa Brown, Ethel Waters...
Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald...
...title song, Everybody Loves My Baby, At Sundown, and It All Depends on You, may find Doris Day's characterization of the star both too pallid and too girl-next-door. Doris tries hard, but, like the film costumes that are supposed to represent the F. Scott Fitzgerald era, she just isn't the real thing...
...Reporting on an advertising campaign for the Roman Catholic Church that used car cards in Chicago buses, streetcars, subway and elevated trains for two months in 1954! Paulist Father Maurice Fitzgerald gave this score: of 5,339 people who responded by asking for information on Catholicism, 150 became converts. Average cost per convert, including textbooks, tests and diplomas: about $80. "There's nothing wrong with using advertising," said Father Fitzgerald. "It's basic to American life-it's the way we do things...