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From more than 100 Sunday newspapers last week tumbled fat and gaudy magazine supplements devoted to a subject that to many dailies was once a bad word: TV. Newspaper publishers still fret over the economic challenge of TV, and critics chide it for challenging the intellect too little. Nevertheless, on the theory that 37 million TV-owning families can't be wrong, newspapers today are giving TV far more space than they gave to movies in Hollywood's heyday-just as the average family spends far more of its time with TV than it ever spent in movie...
...Critic is a somewhat shapeless play, made up of two parts. The first, little more than a series of character sketches, is laid in the home of one Dangle, portrayed ably but with a faintly incongruous accent by James Matisoff. Here, in addition to Puff, another aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...
...since the President's heart attack, are uneasily aware of the mental and physical effects of overstrain. However, when they think of relaxation, the majority think in terms of strenuous, competitive recreation, such as golf. But the trouble with such sports is that businessmen tend to overexert and fret over their performance. And in recent years the golf course has become a kind of office with trees, where businessmen are as intent on arranging ways of raising their incomes as on lowering their scores. Says Norman Livermore Jr., California lumber-firm executive and onetime athlete: '"The great appeal...
...Hand me my dulcy-more," 62-year-old "Aunt" Ellen Fields will chirp to a visitor at her house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down...
...Cadillac engine into the ribs of a Ford and barreling out to surprise his friends on the highway. Among the well-heeled, there is a boom in sports cars; among the nostalgic, the urge to find a "classic," or "antique," such as a vintage Mercer, Marmon or Stutz, and fret and burnish it to an immaculate, working shine...