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Another important guest belonged to Comic Steve Allen, who had a televised talk with his boss, glib NBC President Sylvester (Pat) Weaver. Said Weaver, defending the network's heavily publicized "spectaculars" (color TV extravaganzas): "I have never met anybody who saw-that is to say, any just plain person as against a critic or somebody that is looking at it with a special frame of reference, usually his own witticisms-that saw these shows in color with the limited number of sets available, who just didn't flip his lid, as we say at the high executive level...
...curtain raiser, there is, for some reason or other, Alfred de Musset's A Door Must Be Open Or Shut, a one act play of trivial epigram and some humor, featuring the well-developed acting of Leslie Cass as a teasing and flirting Marquise. Joseph Mitchell plays a droll, glib Count with too much seriousness, and in too much of a hurry, leaving any timing up to the capable Miss Cass. The program notwithstanding, there was no indication that the play had a director, both Miss Cass and Mitchell fending--and fairly well--for themselves...
When, on the other hand, the book sticks to its professed purpose of giving the reader a glimpse into Faulkner's world it is interesting, amusing, and glib...
...hero . . . Like many other persons suddenly thrust into the limelight, I rather thrived on the adulation and new-found popularity ... I began to embellish my speeches with more picturesque and fanciful incidents. I fell into a trap, which in part had been laid by my own glib tongue." The facts, he said, were these: "I was never an OSS agent. I never participated in any secret, behind-the-lines mission ... I never captured Otto Hahn or any other German physicist ... I wish before my Heavenly Father that I might undo this wrong." Stringfellow offered to withdraw from the election...
William Bradford Huie, 43, is a glib, self-promoting free-lance writer who likes nothing better than to be in hot water. He has attacked everything from college football to the U.S. Navy, and has been denounced as regularly and heatedly as he denounces. Last week in Live Oak, Fla., Alabama-born Bill Huie was once again in a cauldron of boiling water, and enjoying every spurt of steam. This time the heat was generated by the case of Ruby McCollum...