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...ABNER (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Al Capp's "Dogpatch" moves to TV, with Sammy Jackson playing the title role, Judy Canova as the recalcitrant "Mammy" Yokum, Jerry Lester her peace-lovin' "Pappy," and Jeannine Riley as Daisy Mae. "sneak preview...
After the evening performances, the hardy repaired to a nearby theater to view long-forgotten movies with operatic backgrounds. Included were such rare delights as Mae West burbling an aria from Samson et Dalila in her 1935 Coin' to Town, and a 1934 version of La Boheme, starring Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., with "music and lyrics by Giacomo Puccini and G. H. Clutsam," the latter a Hollywood tunesmith in unlikely company...
...feast-or-farnine swings in mortgage lending. Builders have pressed for years to expand HUD's Federal National Mortgage Association into a central bank trading in conventional as well as FHA and VA mortgages, to which it is now confined. Bankers oppose any larger role for Fannie Mae, charging that the agency often disrupts the mortgage market it is supposed to steady. Last year, for example, Fannie Mae not only supported an above-the-market price for certain types of mortgage offerings but also suspended buying mortgages more than four months old or larger than $15,000 (a limit...
...fashion industry billed it as the Party of the Year, and the outfits at the fancy-dress blast for 900 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art were indeed grand. One lady in an especially fetching getup was Shirlee Mae Fonda, 34, Actor Henry's wife, who kept everybody wide awake by appearing in her pajamas. Shirlee Mae had a grand time at the ball, and assured anyone who asked that she had no intention of sleeping in her white silk nighty-nights designed by Chester Weinberg. She was going to put them away "to save...
...point at all, but seem thrown in to keep up the banal gaiety and give the scriptwriters a chance to show off their whimsey. For no reason that can be fathomed from the plot, Georgy does a torrid parody of a vamp, swinging down a staircase and singing Mae West style. Equally irrelevant is a remark her father makes in another scene; he doesn't "know to what this world is coming...