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...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A program featuring the lyrics of Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, with Singers Florence Henderson, Barbara Harris and Stanley ("Get me to the church on time . . .") Holloway...
...reasoned summation was offered by Columnist Max Lerner. "Many will view the whole Honolulu venture as a tricky Johnsonian gimmick to give the outward semblance of activity when there is no substance of progress in the war," he wrote. "But it would be serious to underestimate the President or believe that his moves have been wholly histrionic. There is a logic to his latest move, the logic of adding political warfare as a third phase of the American effort, to fill out the triangle whose other two sides are formed by the military operations and the diplomatic operations...
...SANDRA LERNER...
...about the 55th time, Librettist Alan Jay Lerner settled back to watch On a Clear Day You Can See Forever at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater. This time he brought along a fair lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, and afterward, as the cast applauded her backstage, Jackie smiled: "Oh, Alan, I haven't seen anything I loved that much in years." Lerner hadn't gotten that big a rave in the seven weeks since the show opened, so he took the lady over to El Morocco and bought her a glass of champagne...