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...What's On Your Mind? (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is one television show that seriously considers the neuroses of troubled people. Twenty of its 30 minutes are given to the filmed story of a mental-health problem; the remaining ten minutes show a panel discussion by Moderator Isabel Leighton and her guests: a psychiatrist and two laymen...
...stripping away some of the witch-doctor illusions about psychiatry, and at blasting psychoanalytic cliches ("Oddly enough, children from happy homes are sometimes the most unfit; they take their parents' happiness for granted and don't learn what hard work goes into it") Blonde, 43-year-old Isabel Leighton, who edited a 1949 bestseller, The Aspirin Age, is an ex-war correspondent and actress who first took up psychiatry as a hobby six years ago. Now a board member of the Menninger Foundation, and the National Association for Mental Health, she aims to keep What...
General Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is an expensive, hour-long blend of variety acts with a charade-type quiz. In the first show, Pianist-MC Oscar Levant was in his usual sour mood, but his trademark insults seemed more neurotic than funny. Among other guests, Isabel Bigley (Guys & Dolls) and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave performances which a panel of "experts" (including Actress Binnie Barnes and Theatrical Producer Herman Levin) managed to identify...
...Equity Association offered the public a grab-bag art show at the Whitney Museum. The terms were challengingly simple. Admission: $100 a couple and take your pick of more than 500 pieces of donated painting and sculpture-some of them by such top-notchers as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Isabel Bishop and William Zorach. The only catch: the art was all untitled and signatures were taped over with adhesive...
...persistent producers trailed Isabel from London to Hollywood, and at last signed her up a few days before rehearsals began. A former secretary, Isabel had been an unknown chorus girl on Broadway. But Guys & Dolls, now a smash hit, has boosted her fast. "She's a find like Mary Martin," said Ernie Martin, "and it all started because I read TIME on a plane from Los Angeles...