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...rehabilitation. "Some of the shows I did last year," he concedes, "looked like they had been made on the way to the men's room. But you don't kid an audience." He discovered that last year when the ratings at times showed a greater preference for Flipper and I Dream of Jeanie. This season Flipper and Shane oppose him, but so far Honeymooners has outrated them both...
...radio and becomes a feathered walkie-talkie, the elephant slurps up a gentleman's bath, and the zebra turns domestic. On balance, the kid himself might seem the worst behaved, but Zebra isn't that kind of bestiary. Producer-Director Ivan Tors, who made Rhino! and the Flipper series, views all fauna through globs of sentiment. In a rich and foamy climax...
With a virtuoso performance on the red bumpers and masterful flipper control. Willig scored an all-time record 2785 on the Tommy's Lunch pinball machino, shattering the previous mark of 2330 held by Jeff Hobbing...
...Willig lit a cigarette and paused before shooting the fourth ball. He was thinking about a game just a week before on which he had scored 1800 points on the third ball--and tilted. He was thinking of the pool tall in Brooklyn where he had pushed his first flipper, never dreaming that someday he would be standing on the brink of greatness. He was thinking of his mother and father, who more than anything else in the world had wanted their little boy to grow up to be a pinball champion...
Families in the Future. As a result of their experience, the aquanauts brought back recommendations for changes in future Sealab equipment. They found that the staging area, a 4-ft. by 6-ft. section where the divers change their suits, was too small. The ladder was not designed with flipper-feet in mind. And the refrigerator was too small. Otherwise, the aquanauts are ready and anxious to return to the depths. "It's in the state of the art now to build an underwater home for a family," says Carpenter. And the Carpenter family, he allows, wouldn...