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...Dally, by William Hanley. More Neanderthal men have crossed the American stage than ever lived in prehistoric caves. These slopeheads invariably gnaw their English, scratch their armpits, and lock jaws and claws with some naggingly neurotic female. A play dismally devoted to such characters opened the Broadway theater season amid the blanketing hush of the New York newspaper strike. Even without the so-called "death watch" of waiting for the daily drama critics' reviews, there was little proof that Mrs. Dally had ever been dramatically alive...
...Dally's lover is a healthy clod, her taxi-driver husband (Ralph Meeker) is a wounded, raging animal who empties bottles and smashes chairs- because it one accepts Playwright Hanley's shaky psychologizing, he let his three-year-old son drown years before. Mrs. Dally tries to put a think-tank in this poor tiger but he is properly mystified by a wifely oracle who is as daft as she is Delphic: "I think a lot of people could be great people...
...just about the solidest voting bloc in Congress. The 58 non-Southern-bloc freshman Democrats differ greatly. Oklahoma's Jed Johnson is 25, while Iowa's John Hansen is the oldest at 63. Wisconsin's John Race is a machinist and New York's James Hanley is a mortician. California's John V. Tunney, son of the ex-heavyweight boxing champion, is a muscular 205-pounder; and Hawaii's Patsy Mink, the prettiest of the lot, is a petite 5 ft. 1. But they have one thing in common: all are in President Johnson...
Another good fight shapes up at 145. Dudley's Jack D'Arey, who lost narrowly to Owen Hanley last year, takes on Bill O'Day of Levorett, another intramural veteran. D'Arcy, a very methodical and consistent boxer, bear O'Day in the semifinals last year...
PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Broadway Playwright William Hanley has dramatized Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft's opposition to the Niirnberg trials...