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...political games can be so much more exciting. The Twin Cities, on the other hand, were starved for baseball. The Twins set the 1963 American League attendance record and today average 16,000 per game, the highest in the league. Encouraged by this box office bustle, Twins President Calvin Griffith has spent $6,000,000 for 65 new players, 18 of whom have found a place on the Twins alongside seven stars from Washington days...
...Among them: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Greer Garson, Fredric March, Teresa Wright, Fay Bainter, Walter Brennan, Burl Ives, Hugh Griffith, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston...
DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests include Mary Tyler Moore, Carl Reiner and Andy Griffith. Color...
...Griffith's generosity worries his co-manager Howard Albert, owner of a ladies' hat factory where Emile worked - as a "feeder" for the assembly line -before he took up fighting. Emile has a "spending problem," says Albert. He's made close to $750,000 in 50 fights, and he's spent it, on other people. Griffith shrugs. After all, he does own a 1965 Lincoln, "a lot of clothes," and 15 pairs of shoes. "I'm all right," he says. "And I enjoy taking care of the family...
...happens-what people wear and do." Often he makes wooden constructions that are as simple as a man petting a dog. "In itself," he says, "that's a cozy act." Or, he confronts the viewer with Palace in Babylon, a cardboard mock-up of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film epic, Intolerance. As in a spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers at a banquet. Playful, punning, and still a sophisticated commentary, it is, like most...