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...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Rod Serling's The Mighty Casey tries hard not to strike out, features a mechanical robot who pitches for the Hoboken Zephyrs...
Three Circles of Light, by Pietro di Donate. A Saroyanesque merry-go-round, spinning to music not always merry, about Italian immigrants in West Hoboken- the scene of the author's famed first novel, Christ in Concrete...
...colonial house ("I was so sick of brick") and tried to overcome his writer's block. By 1958 he managed to publish a sex potboiler, This Woman. In his latest novel, he shows himself thoroughly unblocked. Revisiting the scene of his first book-the Italian colony of West Hoboken, N.J.-he has written a piece of immigrant Americana that has no more narrative line than an antipasto, but glints with passion and pathos, cruelty and laughter. Set in the World War I era, it is a Saroyanesque merry-go-round spinning to minor-key music...
...Barbarossa is determined that "General Gari baldi shall not die a bourgeois death" but exit gloriously in an explosive blast. He corsets the dog with two sticks of dynamite, buries him in a snowbank and lights the fuses. But faithful Garibaldi lopes after his master, and half of West Hoboken scrambles for dear life. The animal goes out with a bang, all right, but so does a neighbor's entire house front...
RAIL MERGER between Erie and Lackawanna was approved by stockholders, needs only ICC's O.K., which is expected. Merger will save $13 million a year on the two roads' 3,200-mile system between Hoboken, N.J. and Chicago...