Word: idolator
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...that presumably links these varied souls, sects and sentiments is worshiping the false god of self, modern man's craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that...
Starts Sunday: A lemon from Hollywood stars the actor of the same name and a fallen teen-idol, Rickie Nelson. It's called THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY, and the title, believe you us, contains the funniest gag of the whole piece. Co-featured is a singularily unconvincing thriller, SECRET OF THE PURPLE REEF...
...probably wouldn't hear too much about the defensemen, sophomores Brit Mockridge and Austle Sullivan, who alternate with Chris Gordon and Page Champman, but you would be sure to hear about their big blond idol in the goal, Barry von Gerbig, who was voted runner-up to Dartmouth's Tom Wahman among Ivy goalies last season, despite having the next to worst percentage-of-saves record...
Michael Rennie does well as the matinee idol who makes a play for Miss Bel Geddes, and he looks the part. John Cromwell, as Mr. Nelson's crusty old tax lawyer, is another bright spot. In fifth and last place is Betsy von Furstenberg, the fiancee. Miss von Furstenberg is fun to look at, but occasionally agony to listen...
Camelot-on-Hudson. To Fowler, the Manhattan of his day was Camelot, and his fellow newsmen-Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Arthur Brisbane-were knights of the round table, which was usually a bar. Fowler's personal idol and friend was Alfred Damon Runyon. Despite his Broadway camaraderie, Runyon was a brooding, lonely man, and there were distinct traces of rube in his makeup. He believed that to count as a New York know-it-all, he had to unearth a champion heavyweight. Over the years he maintained a series of fighters who ate like lions and fought...