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...Mike Nelson" flippers, masks, snorkels and rubber boats. His 52 sponsors across the U.S. are elated with Sea Hunt's showing, will doubtless keep Bridges going off the deep end next year. He will continue to expose marine-insurance frauds, nab below-surface smugglers of aliens, rescue other hapless souls trapped in the deep, cut short careers of skindiving robbers who prey on fishermen...
Studio One in Hollywood: Straight off an unpretentious cuff, The Desperate Age probed an oft-hacked situation, offered an unhackneyed dramatization. The problem: Does a 28-year-old girl (Barbara Bel Geddes) continue her hapless romance with a married office chum (Wendell Corey) and ruin her chances for a normal life, or does she destroy her present happiness for an acceptable future emptiness? "I'll never love anyone as much," she says. "Maybe you can learn to," pleads her mother (Aline MacMahon). Retorts her daughter: "Maybe I'll have to learn to. That's what you mean...
Visitors sighted in with far more ease than their hapless hosts. When the Giants' Danny O'Connell collected a pair of homers in a single game, the Milwaukee Journal, which knew him as a hitless wonder when he played for the Braves, was moved to protest: "Any time O'Connell hits two home runs in one game, something's wrong. In his three and a half years here, with normal foul lines of 320 ft., he hit exactly NONE." Then the Chicago Cubs came to town. They demolished the Dodgers, 15-2, and hit four homers...
...varsity attack broke loose in the second quarter, as Dave Birch, Lamont, Pyle, Dub Mallonee and Lamont again poured five goals past the hapless Bruin net-minder...
...Halloran, who had lately rendered fatherless her grandchild Fancy through an expedient shove of her hapless son down a long stairway ("His funeral went off very well."), consolidated her grasp of the affairs of the household...