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Tara Singh, white-bearded religious leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, has strong views about the recent habit among young Sikhs of shaving their chins. "These spoiled youths forget," he said, "that when they are shaven they look like boiled potatoes." And then, because Tara Singh is also an active politician, he went on: "Shave the lion and see how he looks! Are we not a race of lions...
...Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m. E.D.T., ABC-TV) adaptation of the Bret Harte short story. Franchot Tone and Teresa Wright starred in this tale of a hard-drinking newspaper editor and a high-minded Philadelphia schoolmarm who meet in a frontier town in 1885. The editor has a carefree habit of lying around drunk in the gutter a good bit of the time, and the schoolmarm, a fairly stuffy type, is tempted to go back to Philadelphia, especially when she is told that her editor friend has fathered an illegitimate child. The happy ending-which came as a mild shock...
Simple Idea. Led by its energetic President Pat Weaver, who is intent on upsetting "the robotry of habit, and stirring selective viewing," NBC-TV had a banner year on one basic idea: to stretch big shows from 60 to 90 minutes. To these large-format programs, Weaver gave a characteristically picturesque name-Spectaculars. In 1955, NBC did 39. One, Peter Pan, was two hours long and had the biggest estimated audience (65 million) of any show during the year. Seventy are already scheduled for next season, and plans are being projected for two-and even three-hour shows...
...Socialist League]. They could talk like hell, but they could not produce anything." But the same critical labor leader admits that Reuther is changing; he is becoming more a "bread-and-butter unionist" and less a social engineer out to "remake the world." Not that he has dropped his habit of making grandiose plans. He prepared a wartime plan to raise the sunken liner Normandie; later he blueprinted a "100-year plan" under which the U.S. would give the rest of the world $1,300 billion for peace. He called it "Proposal for a Total Peace Offensive to Stop Communist...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, long in the habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death of democracy"). Then, with boyish glee, he burbled: "As for me, if I felt any better I couldn't stand...