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Parakeet reactions to TV are fairly complicated. Lu Van Wiseman says that most of them go "nearly crazy with excitement" at the sight of their own kind on the TV screen. Certain music appeals to them ("They just love the Hopalong Cassidy theme song"). And some parakeets act like some people: they just stare at TV in a pained silence...
Climaxing "Adolph Zukor Day" was a $75,000 dinner for 1,000-odd guests at Hollywood's Palladium. Songstress Rosemary Clooney sang (a microphone concealed in the bosom of her dress) Happy Birthday to You; William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd rode into the ballroom astride Topper to shout "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zukor!"; Oldtimer Mary Pickford made a teary speech and Oldtimer Mae Murray did a scampering dance...
...Wallach is a newcomer into the comedy field. He has written two volumes of parodies, "Hopalong Freud" and "Hopalong Freud Rides Again...
...Starring Hopalong Clasby and his sharp-shooting side-kicker, Lefty Monteith, "Repelling the Red Raiders" was filmed on location in the Stadium during the varsity's thrilling 21 to 20 victory over Colgate...
...Russia's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1948, Malik has rivaled even his predecessor Gromyko for plain cussedness (52 vetoes), false charges (germ warfare) and phony offers (the Korean truce). In 1950 he became a TV character as familiar as Hopalong Cassidy, and brought the voice and face of the enemy into the American living room. Last week, Malik was being recalled from his U.N. post for "rest and re-assignment." (Best guess: a high post in the Kremlin's Far East Department.) Asked about his new duties, Malik said only: "There is no unemployment...