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After its Manhattan triumph, the Kefauver committee, virtually ignored in its earlier home-town appearances, played to standing room only in Washington, and to millions of television sets in other cities across the nation...
...Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that no man can keep his hands off, and "the voice of a bird flying at dun twilight over the western plains...
...biggest roll of fat was uncomfortably close to Congress' own waistline. The annual pork barrel-a dazzling and expensive array of highways, flood walls, harbor improvements, reclamation projects, new parks and buildings, and other enterprises designed principally to please a Congressman's or 'Senator's home-town constituents-would be the real test of the cooks' intentions...
...story has it that the people of Bessans began whittling devils in the 14th Century to commemorate a home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed...
Looking Around. TVmen in other cities attribute the poor quality of their local shows to lack of money and talent. But a few enterprising stations have found unexpected riches in their own backyards by inviting the cooperation of home-town civic groups, museums, universities. Baltimore's WAAM-TV got together with Johns Hopkins University to put on Science Review, a network show. Boston's WBZ-TV and the Museum of Science produce Living Wonders, the best of the local crop. Western Reserve, the California Academy of Sciences and the Universities of Buffalo and Louisville are working with other...