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...quiz program (NBC, Wed. 9 p.m., 8 p.m.), You Bet Your Life, is now well into its fifth season. When one of the contestants, a pretty and shapely high-school math teacher, explained that geometry is -the study of lines, curves and surfaces, Groucho gave his celebrated leer and panted, "Kiss me, fool!" The audience reaction threatened to blow the back out of the broadcasting theater. Groucho's jokes sound far funnier than they read afterwards. But there are exceptions, such as the one when he asked a tree surgeon on his program, Tell me, Doctor, did you ever fall...
Once you're in the pie-in-the-face mood, Si Bunce's hickory-smoked, sugar-cured characterization of the woodcutter forced to be a doctor is wonderful. The roguish woodcutter makes the most of his mistaken profession, giving Bunce the chance to leer lasciviously and pinch patients. (The actresses, incidentally, are Radcliffe, not padded males.) Some of the performances in the supporting cast are rather wooden when they are played straight, but luckily none of the performers is above stepping out of character at a propitious moment. James O'Neil's alert directing shows up well in groups scenes...
...gets food from the central kitchen skulleries. Another disadvantage lies in the broken-up entries of Mather, one of the two sections of the House. No great poetry will ever be written about the view from Mather Hall, but the clapboard tenements, rubbernecking down on the Mather courtyard, also leer at Leverett's private tennis court, the only one in the Houses...
Jerusalem Chronicles is the brain child of Polly Van Leer, wife of a Dutch-Jewish industrialist. After hef husband went to Israel to manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library...
...ribald non sequiturs. "And do you have any little thieves at home?" he once asked a baseball umpire. Introducing a dealer in war surplus, he inquired solicitously: "How many times have you been indicted?" Learning from a dress designer that women dress for themselves, he observed with a happy leer: "If they dressed tor me, the stores wouldn't sell much -just an occasional sun visor...