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Condon was the first to insist that Dixieland jazz was worthy of being lifted out of the dingy cellars and onto the concert stage. He helped inspire the whole cult of jazz critics, who could spin out columns on the flittering trumpet solos of Bobby Hackett. To prove his point, in 1942 Condon promoted a highly successful series of jazz "concerts" at Manhattan's Town Hall. During cool jazz's dominance, Condon doggedly ran his own club in Greenwich Village. He organized the bands, promoted Dixieland indefatigably, arranged for the recording sessions...
...ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett, Kevin McCarthy and Kathy Nolan in a murder story about two former school friends and a photographer...
...GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Joan Hackett in the story of a nun's teaching experiences in Colorado...
Engine trouble develops early when Jimmy Durante, as a fugitive named Smiler Grogan, goes hurtling over an embankment. Three cars and a truck stop beside the road, and out spills a lineup from Lindy's: Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney. Before he dies, Durante tells the group about the $350,000 buried in a park some 200 miles away-then, as he breathes his last, his foot flies out and kicks a bucket. Kicks a bucket...
Deep into the fourth quarter, the Tigers held onto their 1-0 lead. Then, with six minutes showiwng, the Crimson's Chris Ohiri found the mark--quite by accident. His boot caused Princeton goalie Pete Svastich to dive to his right. But a Tiger fullback, Bill Hackett got there first, and deflected the ball into the empty part of the goal. Unartistic, perhaps, but enough to send the game into two five-minute overtimes...