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...three days of televised hearings before the legislative committee, Jefferson County Sheriff Charles Meyer admitted "campaign contributions" of $85,581 over a five-year period; he campaigned only once in the five years and was unopposed. The contributions, he said, came in little white envelopes. Port Arthur Police Chief Garland B. Douglas got "campaign contributions" of $65,000; his was an appointive office. On a monthly salary of $735, Beaumont's Chief of Police J. H. Mulligan had tucked away $40,000 in the bank and owned property worth $73,000. "I got a lot of money at different...
...Judy Garland Story: The Star Years (M-G-M). For dedicated Garland fans this album is indispensable-a collection of songs from the sound tracks of a half-dozen corny movie musicals that Judy belted to box-office glory in the late 1940s. For fans who have been mourning the lost lithe talent of their youth, it is all here-in such memories as Who? from Till the Clouds Roll By and Better Luck Next Time from Easter Parade...
Joanie's early career is like a clip from an old Judy Garland movie. She sang and sang-with the jukebox in the tavern where her mother worked, with the Venice (Calif.) High School dance band, with a harmony group for the Elks Club. Finally came the Big Audition-with Tommy Oliver's band at the Deauville country club in Santa Monica, and the Big Click. A demonstration disk played for Warner Bros. record company resulted in her first album, Positively the Most, a title artfully designed to rhyme with Drost. But Joanie had already decided the Drost...
Director Kramer has stacked seven portentous names (Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift) above his portentous title-four of them are grossly miscast, but the customers won't realize that until too late. And he has shrewdly timed the release of his movie to coincide with the reading of the judgment in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. But despite a singularly adroit performance by Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), Judgment is on the whole just one more courtroom meller and an awful long (3 hr. 20 min.) meller...
...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). The classic 1939 M-G-M film, with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr...