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Major General Robert W. Grow was publicly introduced as the U.S. Army's highest ranking lackwit three months ago when a Communist newspaper in Germany published stolen excerpts from the indiscreet diary he kept as military attache at Moscow (Sample: "War! As soon as possible! Now!"). This week the Army began an official review of his literary habits. The Pentagon drew up court-martial charges against him for "improperly recording . . . and failing properly to safeguard classified military information...
...Date with Judy (Sat. 11:30 a.m., ABC-TV) transforms another just-folks radio family into a daytime TV show. The Fosters come equipped with a whimsical father, a lovable but levelheaded Mom, and a lackwit, adolescent son, all working as background for daughter Judy (Pat Crowley). The plot throws Judy in love with an oaf named Oogie, supplies her with boundless opportunities to pout, indulge in temper tantrums and end nearly every scene in a drugstore, where a finger-pointing clerk urges viewers to stock up on Sponsor McKesson & Robbins' products...
...introduces Britain's Rex (Bell, Book and Candle) Harrison in the unlikely role of a Manhattan amateur sleuth. Though saddled with a lackwit assistant (Leon Janney), set upon by an amorous blonde, slugged by a T-man, and tossed into a taxi with a corpse, Harrison never raises his precise, British-accented voice. The opening case, concerning a gang of diamond smugglers, was solved more by mirrors than logic. Sample Harrison deduction: a man who fell four floors to his death couldn't be a suicide, because he failed to open the window before he went through...
Kyser's solicitude for lackwit contestants may stem from his own difficulties in graduating from the University of North Carolina. The combined efforts of his erudite family (his cousin was dean of the Graduate School; his uncle founded the Pharmacy Department) barely managed to get him an A.B. degree in "four year and two quarters." Figuring he was "too damn dumb for anything else," Kyser toured the U.S. with an orchestra after graduation. But his heart stayed on campus: there are two Kyser-endowed scholarships at the university (music and dramatics), and Kyser, at 44, agonizes like sophomore over...
Margaret Campbell's lackwit son confessed that he killed her, was adjudged insane by two alienists. Last week Los Angeles police, on mass guard in the Hollywood area, nabbed a bearded, slender runaway just after a robbery was reported. In his car they found a 2 by 4 bludgeon, at his home shoes which fitted the cast of a footprint near where Delia Bogard was felled. De Witt Clinton Cook, 20, a marauding printer who had learned the fine points of robbery at an Iowa reform school, confessed that he killed Anya Sosoyeva, struck down Delia Bogard, yielded...
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