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...long ago, NBC's Steve Allen scribbled a note to ABC's top Cowpoke James (Maverick) Garner, 29. "Somebody told me you carry a .45. and I got pretty scared. I thought it was your rating." It darn near was. Maverick Garner was giving Allen and his fellow TV Titan Ed Sullivan plenty to worry about on the Sunday-at-8 spot. Last week, for the fifth time. Maverick (7:30 to 8:30) outrode both of them in the Trendex derby-for what that is worth (and to TV and ad moguls it still seems...
...Bros. Confesses Jim: "I can do it better clowning." Any way he does it, Garner gets the support of brisk direction, handsome settings, some elemental but red-blooded lines from writers like Marion Hargrove and Phi Beta Kappa (U.C.L.A., '39) Writer-Producer Roy Huggins, who describes Hero Bret Maverick* as "an antihero, a disorganization man, a kind of bum. He doesn't like to be employed. He's a drifter...
Kicked-Up Rating. Garner has happily forsaken his nomadic life for San Fernando Valley, where he lives with his wife Lois and her nine-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, Kimberly. In his three months on Maverick, to which ABC, Warner Bros, and the sponsor, Kaiser Industries, have committed $6,000,000 for 52 shows (13 of them repeats), he has earned a trifling $500 a week; but he insists that "salary doesn't mean a cotton-picking thing to me." Cowpoke Garner and his colleagues get the pleasure of playing from scripts in which a stage direction...
...Historian Louis Hacker of Columbia University, the current college generation is a trifle depressing. "I find no political interest any more," says he. "There's no cultivation of heterogeneity. We're not looking for the maverick." But Yale's Dean William De Vane says: "I see no danger in the degree of conformity among students. Indeed, I do not believe that they conform as readily as my college generation 40 years ago." Both a puzzle and a fascination to their professors, today's college students have earned a new nickname. See EDUCATION. The No-Nonsense Kids...
...drive toward emancipation that Aisha had launched was not to be denied. Letters from Moroccan and other Moslem feminists poured in on her; so did delegations of well-wishers and counsel seekers. She larded her speeches and pronouncements with action-some of it high, heady and maverick for a royal princess. She drove her own car, rode horses, bareheaded and astride, showed up frequently at the public beach in Rabat for a plunge in the surf. Aisha became a national heroine just by existing...