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...with the original idea ("Wouldn't it be great if we could get Michelangelo and Shakespeare on the tube?" Pat said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Vannevar Bush, Walter Gropius. Next week Graff himself steps in to interview David Ben-Gurion in the library of his Tel Aviv home. His basic idea: to provide "a uniform panorama of human leadership in the first half of the century...
...Shelton got into the act at the University Games in Paris, sported a triangular aluminum cookie cutter on his take-off foot, designed :o give him more "spring action." He inished a low (6 ft. 6 in.) third. Ahead: Russia's Yuri Stepanov (6 ft., 6 in.) and Igor Kashkarov (6 ft. 7 in.), still wearing platform soles...
...Russia's Yuri Stepanov racked up a world's record high jump of 7 ft. 1 in. early this summer, western trackmen admitted to mild surprise. Few had ever heard of Yuri, and he had not even made the Soviet Olympic squad. When Russia's Olympian Igor Kashkarov (who cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly to have...
...Equipe, published a picture of Yuri in action. Every high-jumper who saw it leaped to a quick-conclusion: there was something sneaky about the Soviet jumper's sneakers. The sole of the take-off shoe looked uncommonly thick. Maybe it was bouncy enough to give Igor and Yuri an extra boost...
...series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman's Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James Michener will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and David Ben-Gurion. Wide Wide World returns Sundays to alternate with Omnibus, which promises to bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel in a new variety series, Giselle MacKenzie gets her own show...