Word: humes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman, who once threatened to punch Washington Post Musicritic Paul Hume in the nose after Hume hinted that Daughter Margaret's voice was maybe not operatic, went in for some critic's art himself. Reviewing a record album (The Confederacy, Columbia SL-220, $10) for The Saturday Review, Critic Truman found its songs and readings "excellent." After that, Truman happily digressed to one of his favorite pastimes-a folksy War-Between-the-States history lesson, second-generation style. "When I listened to the record I could see [Confederate General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed...
...Hume Cronyn has a busy night. He plays the double role of gruff, vain Bennett Honey, who sprinkles false dandruff on his toupee, and his boorish brother Curtis, who decorates his living room with animal heads. (The living room, incidentally, is wonderfully bizarre: Ben Edwards' other setting is too.) Cronyn grumbles his way admirably through both parts, and manages to make the Honeys just similar enough to be twins but different enough to be two people...
...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...