Word: grifter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armstrong by Request (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The sort of rerun that can hardly be seen too often: an object lesson in the perils that beset the average consumer from supermarket to sidewalk grifter. The White Collar Bandit is a true-life report from the files of Manhattan's Better Business Bureau, redolent of assorted bunko artists, con men and garden-variety gyps...
...Alcoa Theatre (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Repeat of Eddie, the cash-or-kill monologue about a small-time grifter (Mickey Rooney) trying to raise money to pay off a gambling debt...
...Fairfield's text is not a commentary. It breaks down in many places, particularly into six chapters, entitled: Education, Once Upon a Time, Organized Social Life, Girls and Sublimation, Administration, and Environment. The first chapter itself breaks down into analyses of the three characteristic types of Harvard student: the grifter, the amateur aesthete, and the course-regurgitator...