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...Couple. The success is not simply Simon's; the only writing he does for the weekly program is his name on the back of a weekly royalty check. The real source of the Odd Couple's life is the most empathetic team of situation comedians since Gleason and Carney. They are Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, and they combine total understanding of the play (in which they both performed) with contempt for the accustomed mechanical slickness of most TV comedy...
Married. Jackie Gleason, 54, comedian who last week obtained a divorce from his wife of 34 years; and Beverly McKittrick, 38, his Miami secretary, whom he met last year while playing golf at a Florida country club; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Ashford, England...
...really designed for conventional box sets, the play demands them, and William Ritman has made the best of a difficult situation, so arranging the parts of the Dudgcon's main room that they can easily be shuffled about to become the main room of the Anderson household. John Gleason's lighting could be improved. When Judith arrives at the Dudgeon farm-house, it is morning; yet when the door is opened, we look through it into pitch darkness. And I find the too obvious use of follow-spotlights somewhat irritating. But such tiny blemishes cannot seriously mar what is from...
Divorced. Jackie Gleason, 54, by his own admission "the greatest" showman of all; and Genevieve Gleason, 51; on grounds of "judicial separation" under New York's liberalized law, which went into effect in 1967; after 34 years of marriage (19 of separation), two children; in Manhattan. Settlement: she gets more than $100,000 a year in alimony...
Even this fact didn't impress everyone. Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and head of the Faculty docket committee, said, "This late in the year, it's just harder to get as good a turnout as in January...