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...Rogues. Charles Greenough Mortimer was born in Brooklyn, the son of a brilliant but unbusinesslike inventor father and a sensible, businesslike mother, who is still alive at 86. A stout boy who learned to fight early because his playmates called him "Fatty," he was an only child and one of a long string of Charles Greenough Mortimers. "I made the mistake once," he says, "of tracing the Mortimers back to England. I got as far as the one who seduced the wife of Edward II and I stopped. They were all rogues...
...that without clothes everyone would be too cold, too hot, or too bug-bitten to worry about such matters. Nor is it entirely that cops would look just like bookies-tattoos could take care of that. The author is a disciple of the late Psychologist Alfred Adler, inventor of the universal inferiority complex. It is Langner's extrapolation of the master's work that man clothes himself in order to feel superior-to the beasts by hiding his apparatus for procreation and excretion, and to other men by putting...
Bascomb captures the bomb, its inventor (David Kasoff) and his daughter (Jean Seberg), four policemen and a blustery, obtuse General. Unfortunately, the real bomb in the film is Miss Seberg, who though fetching, cannot act--even when one concedes that her part is largely a spoof on the Hollywood heroine type. After losing his heart to Miss Seberg and his insides to the Atlantic, Bascomb returns to Grand Fenwick as unwelcome victor...
...American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Inventor Eli Whitney's struggles and achievements get full hearing in The Practical Dreamer, starring Burgess Meredith. Color...
...Snopes trilogy (earlier novels: The Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man. Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who may not have been the world's greatest inventor, but who had no equal as an inventor-promoter...