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Miss Caroline is the whimsical, affectionate brainchild of Gerald Gardner, 34, the former Manhattan adman who soared to publishing success of sorts last year with his bestselling, cartoon-like picture paperback Who's In Charge Here? Teaming up with Artist Frank Johnson, 32, Gardner began tinkering with the Miss Caroline cartoon idea last autumn, gave it a trial run with a 128-page paperback of single cartoon panels, which has sold 250,000 copies since it was published last January, and then showed samples to newspapers...
...Gardner did not check his idea with the White House, and confidently expects no trouble. Indeed, his new character is drawn not to resemble any specific little girl by the same name, and whenever "Miss Caroline" is with her parents, they are pictured only from the neck or waist down. But when her creators have her plowing up her vegetable garden because Daddy tells her there is a surplus, or throwing down a newspaper because "Walter Lippmann doesn't understand me," there is no chance of mistaken identity...
...Gardner and four other panelists touched on a variety of subjects during the two-hour discussion, from the need to raise standards in television broadcasting to the distingtion between art and communication...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner in The Sun Also Rises...
Rome Refallen. He has followed El Cid with 55 Days at Peking (TIME, Sept. 14). An $800,000 Peking rose out of the rainless plains northwest of Madrid only to be razed by fire at the picture's climax, with Ava Gardner and Charlton Ming-Heston caught in the fumes. Now he is filming The Fall of the Roman Empire (Sophia Loren, James Mason, Alec Guinness), and next he will re-create The Circus, Paris 1900 and The French Revolution...