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Last week Gilbert Godard was busy spending his insurance money on 1) a new house, 2) a new car, 3) a new lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...
...embarrassing word would not easily down. Last week, in the heart of "Ad Alley" on Manhattan's Madison Avenue, huge billboards announced the September opening of a new restaurant with "persuasive personality''and an "ultimate Ad Lib Bar." Its name: "The Huckster...
...News Conference (Mon. 7 p.m., NBC). Politicians and newsmen in an ad lib discussion of campaign issues...
Some of the TV newcomers found it hard to overcome their opening-night jitters. Expert Adams fidgeted unhappily, seemed to long for the protective security of radio, hardly ever got into the act. Expert Kieran covered his own nervousness with a fluent flow of ad lib comments (although he once flubbed a quotation from Omar Khayyam). Sportcaster Red Barber, delivering General Electric's commercials, was as edgy as a batter facing the three-and-two pitch. Biggest surprise: James Michener's wide fund of knowledge, e.g., natural history, poetry, mythology...
...followed with ad lib comments and then adjourned to Memorial Hall where she drank a beer surrounded by a crowd of admiring freshmen...