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...full-fledged field hand at nine-often at six. When he invades a new area, crowded schools wink at attendance laws. Falling behind, he quits school by the fourth grade. He is the nation's greatest single source of illiteracy, and by that handicap, condemned to repeat the hopeless life of his parents. He desperately needs education-and a sense of worth...
...play was particularly notable in the hopeless desert of summer programing, but it would have stood out at any time as the first of a new series-The Robert Herridge Theater-that has long been one of the finest unseen programs ever assembled. Producer Hf-ridge began it over a year ago at CBS Films, a semi-independent TV packaging firm, but as show after show went on tape, the series looked so widely various that potential customers felt they did not know what they might be buying. In ten months, many agencies and sponsors smelled quality and kept their...
...just running for fun," Robert C. Johnson. 48, explained to friends who asked him why he got into a hopeless election contest. On a dare, Johnson, a political unknown, operator of a small Jacksonville clothing factory specializing in policeman and fireman uniforms, had entered Florida's Democratic primary as a candidate for the unpaid but influential party post of national committeeman...
Happy-Go-Lucky. A British military expert who saw Malinovsky in action also found him impressive: "In defensive operations, he never panicked, no matter how hopeless the situation looked. But in offensive operations he was a bit happy-go-lucky. He planned up to the point of launching the attack. But from then on, he was inclined to improvise...
...Best Man. In a 1960 political convention, a ruthless opportunist and a hopeless idealist gnaw at each other's vitals while the audience tries to decide just who in actual political life most closely resembles Playwright Gore Vidal's characters...