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DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (CBS. 8-9 p.m.). "Make Room for Granddaddy" is a reunion of the cast that made scratch for Danny for eleven seasons on the old Dan ny Thomas show...
...continuation of the upward trend in real estate prices in the San Clemente area. Within the five-year period, the President will sell all but his five acres and house. If his gamble pays off, he will retire the debt on the borrowed money and perhaps even make a profit. Just to whom the President will sell is not known. It could be a "compatible" buyer-perhaps Nixon's wealthy, longtime friend "Bebe" Rebozo-or it could be the Nixon Foundation, which might build a presidential library and museum on the land, though the President's California home...
...Shavian sublime and the G.B.S. ridiculous are both visible in the two latest products of the Shaw scholastic industry. Dr. Stanley Weintraub, a leading Shavian expert in the U.S., has culled biographical bits from the detritus of Shaw's mountainous writings to make a paste-and-scissors "autobiography." British Historian R. J. Minney has formed a pattern of sorts from some industriously gathered anecdotal bits. Though the Shavian shavings do not quite add up to the beard of the prophet, Weintraub's book at least proves that Shaw was perhaps the greatest autobiographer who never wrote...
...Shavians are so pious as to be diverted by all the material in Minney's compilations. Who cares to learn that Shaw once diverted traffic with his walking stick to make way for Greer Garson's car? Or that his housekeeper used to smuggle whisky into Shaw's soup? Still Minney has unearthed a few memorable anecdotes in which Shaw appears as the witty Irishman, some of his cracks as old as the Wicklow Hills. Alfred Hitchcock, on meeting Shaw: "One look at you, and I know there's famine in the land." Shaw, replying...
...seen to lie in the clever children who wrote its obituary? As these collections again attest, the cleverest child of all was George Bernard Shaw, who could invent a new name for God and tackle anything and anyone, even though he could never learn to eat and drink or make love like other men, occasionally shut up, or even master the bicycle...