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...Greek fleet is becalmed at Aulis, restive and stalled in its military mission to bring the beauteous and adulterous Helen back from Troy. An oracle has told King Agamemnon that if he sacrifices the life of his daughter Iphigenia the wind will rise and Greek arms will ravage Troy. Agamemnon, played with a mixture of bluff aplomb and sad perplexity by Mitchell Ryan, is a politician's politician who rules more by public opinion than private conscience. He fears the mob and decides to do the oracle's bidding...
Friday, November 17 TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The guests make this one interesting: Helen Hayes and her son, James MacArthur, as a domineering mother and her son who wants to be a jungle doctor...
...Died. Helen Palmer Geisel, 69, wife of "Dr. Seuss" and mother to his zany literary menagerie of Grinches, Nerkles, and Star-Belly Sneetches; of undetermined causes; in La Jolla, Calif. As an American at Oxford in 1925, she urged her boy friend, Ted Geisel, to devote himself to his whimsical doodles. Geisel took her advice to heart, married her as well, and as Dr. Seuss, published 27 books...
...however, support their position entirely and call for all universities, including Harvard and Wellesley, to heed the call to conscience which has generated these protests. Sigmund Abeles, Art Leon Apt, History Duncan Aswell, Eng. Grazia Avitabile, Ital. Mariam Berlin, His. Sharon Cadman, Eng. Elizabeth Conant, Bio. Ann Congleton, Phil. Helen Corsa, Eng. John Crawford, Music Ward Cromer, Psych. Fred Denbeaux, Bib. His. Jacqueline Evans, Math. David Ferry, Eng. John Graham, Math Laurel Furumoto, Psy. Rene Galand, French Edward Gulick, His. Jean Harrison, Bio. Walter Houghton, Eng. Gabriele Jackson, Eng. Owen Jander, Music Florence McCulloch, French Eleanor McLaughlin, His. Jeanette McPherrin...
...latching on to sexy manuscripts and spending huge amounts of money on ballyhoo. Thus Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, a vulgar chronicle of three female predators on the make in Hollywood, sold more than 350,000 hard-cover copies and 6,000,000 more in paperback. Helen Gurley Brown's guide for swingers, Sex and the Single Girl sold about 2,500,000 copies In each case Gais, assisted by his promotion department, a fetching blonde named Letty Cottin Pogrebin, spent more than $80,000 on advertising...