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Then there was Belinsky, the first real "kook" the majors have seen in quite a while. The Angels' rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
Then there was Belinsky, the first real "kook" the majors have seen in quite a while. The Angels' rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
...ringleaders went on trial for their lives. Last week, in Seoul's Sodaemun prison, the death sentence against a smuggler was carried out for the first time: the hangman's noose was lowered over South Korea's most wanted criminal, surly, burly Han Pil Kook...
...after that out-of-Capote beginning, Director Blake Edwards (High Time) goes on to an out-of-character end. On the conventional but dubious assumption that every kook belongs in some nice guy's kitchen, he induces poor Holly to give up mattress money for matrimony. As the nice guy, George Peppard scarcely makes the alternative seem attractive -he has that I-went-to-college-but-it-didn't-do-any-good look of the sort of Harvardman who couldn't even get a job in Washington. And Audrey Hepburn, though she plays with fluent...
Thriller (NBC) is an hour-long bloodmobile with Boris Karloff as host. Last week's unpromising première involved a Manhattan corporate executive framed as a murderer by a kleptomaniacal kook...