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...school gamesmen that they are, the British make him a sporting proposition-money, false papers, a gun and as much of a head start as they can manage if he cares to make a despairing run for his life. It is an offer he cannot refuse in the circumstances. Ventura's run-which includes trying to capture a Russian spy (who is also a well-known symphonic conductor), whom the fugitive needs as bait for a deal with his former masters-forms the substance of a movie that is at once deft and thoughtprovoking...
...programming executives are consummate gamesmen. But traditionally, the fall schedules they announce close to Washington's Birthday-unlike the trial balloons they float down Madison Avenue earlier-are the ones they really mean. This year, there was an unprecedented amount of delay and, in the words of one ABC vice president, "a lot of lying." The explanation came last week with the schedules: 35 of TV's 77 prime-time series, including the longest running program of them all, The Ed Sullivan Show, were jettisoned. It was the most convulsive upheaval in network history...
...privilege to know Stephen Potter, captain of all gamesmen [Dec. 12]. But he got me one-down by a mistake. In his Lifemanship (1950), a footnote to the "Yes, but not in the South" variant of the Canterbury Block reads: "I am required to state that World Copyright of this phrase is owned by its brilliant originator, Mr. Pound...
Wednesday, March 27 DREAM HOUSE (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).*Spectator gamesmen who have become bored with all those other competitions can turn to the latest TV giveaway and watch some lucky participant win a furnished $40,000 house. A daytime version of the show will begin Monday, April 1, at 1 p.m. Premiere...
...until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that can make the difference between retirement to Miami or to a county relief check. But to keep the union out, he must pay a stiff percentage of his profits to an underworking (Richard Boone) whose strongboys keep the little...