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Wednesday, October 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The latest guest-villain is Vincent Price, who plays Egghead in "An Egg Grows in Gotham." Robin and friend scramble his fowl plans to take over the city...
...watercolor in Manhattan's Cober Gallery and grinned: "My, what a lovely painting. I wonder who did that." Actually, the masterpiece, entitled The Old Quarter, Gerona, was an original 1966 Fonda. Hank, who paints as much as he acts, donated Gerona to a benefit sale for the Gotham Chapter of Retarded Infants Services, an event that also featured the efforts of such old masters as Soupy Sales and Xavier Cugat. "I take such a joy in painting," said Fonda, inspecting the art with his wifely muse of five months, Shirlee...
...series is intended as camp-meaning it's so bad that it's good, at least in the view of some (TIME, Jan. 28). The four-to-twelve age set continues to marvel while Batman and his protégé, Robin the Boy Wonder, rout such Gotham City scoundrels as the Penguin and the Mad Hatter. Teen-agers and the college crowd still consider it sophisticated to snigger at Batman's wildly exaggerated plots and cliché-cluttered dialogue. As a result of the show's high ratings, merchants are anticipating a $50 million sale...
...thirty minutes went much too fast. It started with the narrator's "put your gum under your seats," zipped through a catchy theme, and within minutes, the Caped Crusader and Robin the Boy Wonder were risking their dedicated lives in a effort to rid Gotham City of crime. Adam West stars at Batman; even lacking a size 48 chest, his portrayal is excellent. Batman's young ward is played by Burt Ward, who is everything we remember from drugstore newsstand days...
...Kentucky Derby May 1. Nobody paid much attention to Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 7-1), a colt that anybody could have claimed for $7,000 last April-if anybody had wanted him. True, Flag Raiser had won two in a row, including this month's Gotham Stakes, by a total of 91 lengths, but the railbirds insisted that he was strictly "early speed...