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This season, animals are all the rage. Alice in Wonderland's sizable audience may have been more fascinated by such strange creatures as the Gryphon, Mock Turtle, March Hare and Cheshire Cat than by such stars as Eva Le Gallienne, Elsa Lanchester, Martyn Green and Gilliam Barber. On one hour of ABC's Mickey Mouse Club last week, moppets saw a succession of wild hares, lemurs, hamsters, pythons, lions, leopards, pumas and sharks. At the same moment, NBC's rival Pinky Lee Show was knee-deep in lions. Lassie and Rin Tin Tin are dedicated to proving...
...Alston knew just how to discipline Big Don Newcombe when he kicked up a fuss about pitching batting practice (TIME, May 23); Big Newk has been pitching (18 won, i lost) and hitting (.376 at week's end) with astonishing skill ever since. With Pee Wee Reese, Junior Gilliam and Carl Furillo all doing their share, there is hardly a chance that the team can pick up its old habit of relaxing and folding in the stretch. Above all, Campy is back in shape. For two weeks the Dodgers fretted while he recovered from a loose bone spur...
...District Court in Atlanta ruled that City Censor Christine Gilliam overstepped her authority when she banned The Blackboard Jungle apparently because the film depicted white and Negro students attending the same school...
...ruling against New York and Ohio censors last year, Loew's Inc. asked an injunction against any future ban on Blackboard Jungle (currently ranking sixth in box office receipts-see above). Loew's also asked the court to rule that Atlanta Censor Mrs. Christine Smith Gilliam acted improperly in banning the film on grounds that it was "immoral, obscene, licentious and will adversely affect the peace, health, morals and good order of the city...
...Brooklyn Dodger Second Baseman James ("Junior") Gilliam, who hit .278, fielded .976, led the league in triples (17) and drew 100 bases on balls, as a lead-off batter, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year, the fifth Negro in a row to win the award. Runnerup: St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Harvey Haddix, who won 20 games, lost...