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Died. Clarence George ("Pete") Wellington, 69, longtime (since 1916) staffer of the Kansas City Star who rose to managing editor (1947-54) and executive editor (since 1954), received a rare accolade from onetime Star Cub Reporter Ernest Hemingway: "He taught me how to write"; of a heart attack, while on a Caribbean cruise...
Adenauer . . . Ben-Gurion . . . Nasser ... John Foster Dulles. And the Shah of Iran . . . Admiral Rickover . . . Ernest Hemingway...
...Ernest Hemingway wrote The Killers before breakfast one morning in 1927, cabled it that day from Madrid to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Scribner's Magazine in New York, and has never changed one of its 2,000 words. Seen through the eyes of Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells-mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue-about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story...
...Adams, Dean Stockwell gave the impression that he had learned The Method at Hotchkiss, but Dane Clark and Robert Middleton were smooth and competent as the killers, and so was Ray Walston as the frightened owner of the lunchroom in which the killers reveal their plot. Beyond the brief Hemingway dialogue, the show was distinguished only by the Swedish fighter. In a flashback to a Chicago gym, where he was coached in the art of taking a dive, and in the scene from the original, in which he decided that he is "through with all that running" from death...
Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's famed short story, The Killers, featuring World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson as the ex-heavyweight fighter and Dane Clark as a gunman hired...