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Wallace's half-hour finale exuded cheerless defeat. The candidate and his running mate General LeMay sat behind bare, petty-bureaucrat desks, the General seated not really next to Wallace but off well to the left, not so near as to be frightening but available just in case we need a little of that nuclear hardware...
...only real suspense in If He Hollers, Let Him Go, which calls itself a thriller, is waiting for the comely costar, Negro Singer Barbara McNair, to take her clothes off. Since she doffs her duds during the first half-hour, voyeurs can feel free to leave immediately afterward. There is nothing more for them-or anyone else, really...
...tricks of timing which elude him on film. His lyrics for the show's title song ("Springtime for Hitler and Germany/Winter for Poland and France/We're marching to a faster pace/Look out, here comes the master race.") deserve enshrinement. But The Producers dies a slow and painful death, a half-hour at least without a laugh, and by the time it's over Brooks' short tenure at the front rank of movie comedies has ended also...
Doctor: Any time you have a half-hour TV panel show and there is time for only four questions in a half-hour, it's lousy...
...were being caught in fresh-water Lake Michigan by the thousands. And every strike was a battle. The silvery coho salmon are 2 ft. long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying to charter a boat for three months: "I come from muskie country. This is the nearest thing to deep-sea fishing I'll ever...