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Fitchburg, Mass., Lake Whalom Playhouse: Ginger Rogers witching about in Bell, Book and Candle...
...Ginger. From beginning to end, said their guide, the Russians behaved like "schoolboy tourists." There were minor difficulties, of course. Pavel Erofeev, administrative secretary of the Union of Soviet Journalists, and the delegation's pin-money treasurer, refused to convert his $3,000 expense-money draft into traveler's checks, demanded cash (he got it). Teetotaler Erofeev also had transcontinental trouble ordering the soft drink recommended by Teetotaler Salisbury; Erofeev kept asking for ginger ale, but his hosts, misinterpreting his basic English, kept bringing him gin rickeys and gin-and-tonic. "The Russians were charmed by Disneyland," said...
...other side of the debate there are those who consider this a chance for America to prove to the world that it values lives over tractors. At its elegant and ginger best, the New York Times led the way with an editorial whose policy was later put more colorfully by the Daily News: "From the humanitarian angle we may have to make this smelly deal." Agreeing that the "humanitarian angle" was what counted, Senator Humphrey insisted that the U.S. was demonstrating strength, not weakness, in acting to save the rebels...
...Hope Sports Award Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Hope honors the outstanding athletes of 1960, using Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Julie London, Jane Wyman, Jane Russell and Jayne Mansfield not as trophies but to help make the presentations...
Amos Queensly's first novel, The Section Man, is a masterful parody of one of the outstanding novels of recent years, J. Parnell Donlevy's The Ginger Man. And like very few parodies, it surpasses its model...