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Adams' column, "The Conning Tower," provided a varied diet of puns, epigrams, wry humor, and observations on man's minor imperfections and the minutiae of life. His sharp eye surveyed the theater: Helen Hayes, he observed, after seeing her coy performance in Caesar and Cleopatra, suffered from "fallen archness." He rewrote razor-blade ads ("Ask the man who hones one"), and punctured politicians ("When candidates appeal to 'Every-intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them"). He drafted fond couplets to his young sons...
Died. Thomas Chamales, 35, boisterous bestselling novelist (Never So Few, Go Naked in the World) who spent last Thanksgiving in jail for beating his wife, Songstress Helen O'Connell, and threatening to kill their two-year-old daughter; of asphyxiation when his cigarette set his apartment on fire; one day before his trial for assault, and two weeks before the publication of his new book. Forget That I Ever Lived; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Died. Mary Agnes ("Polly") Thomson, 75, longtime word-of-finger translator and "sister" to blind, deaf Author-Educator Helen Keller; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. Glasgow-born Polly Thomson, who never lost her Scottish burr, came to the U.S. in 1913, was hired by Helen Keller's formidable teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, as secretary, stayed on after "Teacher" died in 1936 asking that Helen and Polly-"my two children"-remain together. Polly's "talking" fingers, working at a rate of 85 words a minute tapping out letters in Helen Keller's palm, became Helen...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The first of a series of classic mysteries adapted for TV. Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat stars Helen Hayes and Jason Robards Jr. Host: Joseph Welch...
...Miracle Worker. Although William Gibson's play about the young Helen Keller often lacks skill, it becomes a deeply moving theatrical experience through the performances of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...