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...hungry, undersized Englishman who gave his name as John Hume Ross enlisted in the R.A.F. He found the going rough, and he was not much of a soldier. He tried manfully to enjoy the ruggedness of his unaccustomed surroundings, but his accent was Oxford, and he was shocked by the obscenities that peppered everyone's speech but his own. Sometimes physical training made him ill. Each night he scribbled notes before lights out. The men wondered about this queer one, but not for long. Four months after he enlisted, the newspapers printed the sensational story: Airman Ross was really...
...taking up old stances than throwing fresh philosophical punches. For one brief moment in the preface of his latest book Human Society in Ethics and Politics, the old philosopher gets set to floor all previous Russells with one haymaking swing. He quotes with approval a famous epigram of David Hume: "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions." Though he claims to believe this, Russell, like Philosopher Hume, is not entirely happy about it, and proves it by launching into his favorite fable-how sweet Grandmother Reason is gobbled up by the big bad wolf called...
Friday with Garroway (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Victor Borge, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn...
...Halls of Ivy (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The radio series moves to TV, with Ronald Colman, Benita Hume...
Were any of the sustaining summer shows good enough to carry on into the fall as sponsored programs? The trade magazine Tide asked the question of more than 3,000 industry executives, found three shows in front by a wide margin: The Marriage, starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn; Adventure; and Shakespeare on TV, featuring Southern California's Professor Frank C. Baxter...