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Television had its own revival when Kraft TV Theater repeated Rod Serling's Patterns, which was first shown a month ago. A study of war to the knife in a large corporation, Patterns employed the same cast (Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Richard Kiley), to win the approval of those critics who had missed it earlier. But at week's end there was at least one strongly dissenting voice: the Watt Street Journal. In a long, viewing-with-alarm editorial, the Journal conceded the play's dramatic power but expressed shock at its ethical standards and concluded...
...gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew how to sneeze, scratch, or reach for a towel just as his rival was shooting. But few could imitate bald Onofrio Lauri, who was often accused of polishing his pate and reflecting the table lights into...
...gift whatever for hewing to it. Writing amiable nonsense, he can doubtless be pardoned for never sufficiently thickening his plot; his sin is how sadly he waters his prattle. He permits far too much second-rate-and secondhand-jesting; he should trade in his rubber stamp for a pruning knife. But The Grand Prize merits the classic praise the curate gave his egg: parts of it are very good...
...season with six major assets: Dave Hawkins, who is so good in every event that he could virtually be the coach's whole portfolio; Alan Rapperport in the backstroke; and a block of talent in the free style that must even capture Yale's interest--Jim Jorgensen, Jack (Knife) Edwards, Captain Ted Whatley, and Gus Johnson...
...hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into brigades, but it is more than any brigadier's life is worth to try and get any work out of them. Fights are nearly always settled with knife and hatchet. Every year a large batch of more than a thousand blatnye is shipped off to the camps on the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. From these camps there is no return...