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Despite the political mayhem to which we can look forward in the coming months, there will be leaders in both parties, members of the press, and many citizens among the public at large who will sense in their hearts that these are clashes on the level of sloganeering, which do not reflect deeply felt rifts in national opinion. Yet of those who sense the far more significant questions which are taking shape offstage, few will be able to articulate them. And those who do will be warned by the experts that these questions are not profitable for election year debate...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) is the naked title of one of the new crime shows, and the movie director with the fine hand for murder and mayhem should be recommendation enough for TV fans of terror and torment. Unhappily, the best part of the show is Hitchcock's own sardonic introductions of the sponsor ("And now for that part of the program you have all been waiting for") and his description of his TV spot (a series of "situation tragedies"). But his play last week was the tired tale about the girl who turns...
...Grant planned the siege of Vicksburg from headquarters on Beale Street. But its real fame and flavor began after Reconstruction and the yellow fever epidemic of 1876-1878, when the white man moved away, and the street became the Main Stem of Memphis' darktown. The night life and mayhem, and, above all, the music of Beale Street became famous up and down the Mississippi...
Then French Canadians adopted baggataway and softened it up a little. But what the Canucks called lacrosse (because the stick looked like a bishop's crosier) was still mayhem on the lawn. Today, in its ultimate refinement, lacrasse is played by ten-men teams on fields 110 yards long. Modern players are not too proud to protect themselves with helmets, shoulder pads, arm pads and long, ribbed gloves. Almost anything goes in the effort to move downfield and toss an India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square. The ball can be carried, thrown or batted with...
...field, professional-football champions are described as not "unduly sober citizens," who "belt the bottle or some barroom companions"; on the field, they endeavor to dismember opponents, pile on the runner, and commit various forms of mayhem. What an inspiration to American youth...