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Picasso & Pop. The museum was a triumph of individualistic donations. Its pavilions were named for their donors, the late realtor Leo S. Bing, Bankers Bart Lytton and Howard Ahmanson, who laid out a total of $3,675,000. Industrialist Norton Simon gave a $250,000 wad as well as a...
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). Elmer Gantry, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel about a corrupt revivalist preacher. Burt Lancaster, in the title role, won an Oscar for his performance.
The year is 1867. With winter due, the city of Denver has been hit by a liquor shortage. In ten days the saloons will be bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on...
Unfortunately, Hallelujah drowns its troubles in talk, and the sobering effects are compounded by a mock-historical narrator who tries to pinpoint everyone's position on a map from time to time. Lancaster, a commanding presence as always, looks permanently flabbergasted over his first venture into an out-and...
Smothered. To President James Z. Appel, a homespun general practitioner and surgeon from Lancaster, Pa., talk of a doctors' boycott, even euphemized under the name of "non-participation," was wrong and dangerous. Though he himself opposed the bill, Dr. Appel said that the medical profession "must participate in the...