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Last week, Morgan was on the air at a new time with a new sponsor, Bristol-Myers (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T., NBC). The ingredients were familiar: Morgan burlesquing high-flown documentaries; Morgan being badgered by bustling stooges. Biggest surprise was Morgan's respectful treatment of his sponsor and his super-generous mention (96 times) of the sponsor's name and products. As a reformed bad boy, Morgan is not necessarily funnier than before, but he might last longer...
Force of Evil, based on Ira Wolfert's novel Tucker's People, takes too long to say too little, and it uses too much high-flown language in dealing with its lowbrow characters. Unable to keep the story alive with dialogue and camera, Director-Scenarist Abraham Polonsky sometimes puts his star on the sound track as narrator. This leads to some confusion: Has the novel been made into a movie, or is it just being read aloud, with a pictorial background...
...Nobody was putting out a magazine that cost $150 a year. Last week young Forbes had one in the dummy stage, and was taking a full-page ad in the New York Times next week to announce it. Its name was Nation's Heritage, its high-flown purpose to illustrate "the whole American panorama -the resources, the living patterns, the culture and the tradition of all the people and of all the land...
...TIME'S apologies to Artist Evergood for stupidly attributing to him the New Masses' high-flown comments. For a sample Evergood nymph...
...Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...