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BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Burke's usual bag of interesting cameo players: Hans Conried, Broderick Crawford, Dan Duryea, Rhonda Fleming, Burgess Meredith and Mamie Van Doren...
...JAMES H. MEREDITH University of Ibadan Nigeria, West Africa...
...Dancing. Novelist Edwin O'Connor has always created characters with a tongue or two in their heads. In his first play, his hero is a retired vaudevillian, Waltzing Daniel Considine. Burgess Meredith acts, sings, and dances the part as if gazing nostalgically into the splintered mirror of a show-biz Narcissus grown...
Nearly half of Mississippi: The Closed Society is devoted to letters which Silver wrote to friends, relatives, government officials, and the press after the riot. This section is undoubtedly the more interesting, for it contains a detailed description of the riot, Silver's impressions of James Meredith, and a note to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., special assistant to President Kennedy, suggesting that if necessary the President telephone Meredith to plead with him to remain at the university...
...Oregon friend, he writes, "Anyway, I was fed up with the whole damned Negro business and certainly didn't want any more involvement." Of Meredith, he writes, "He and I agree pretty well on the necessity for Negroes to get the rights implied in the Declaration of Independence, but when he gets much farther than that he is likely to lose...