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...counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
After hearing mop-haired young Conductor Robert Shaw lead his Collegiate Chorale and members of the New York Philharmonic through Mennin's Fourth last week, listeners and critics were glad the composer had gone ahead. At times, the Fourth sounded as if it were about to sound like someone else; there were Stravinsky-like dissonances, used sparingly and for punctuation, in the opening of the rhythmic first movement, and there were Hindemith or Shostakovich traces in the lyric andante. But each time, and overall, the music came out strongly Mennin-energetically powerful, open and clean...
Fels Carter and John Gay each slashed through the Bowdoin saber team for three wins. Bob Westhrim snared two more points before Tom Masterson came in to mop up the last bout and complete the whitewash...
Died. Willie Howard (real name: William Levkowitz), 62, wizened, mop-haired stage comic who convulsed theatergoers for half a century with his low-comedy antics (best known routine: his characterization of Professor Pierre Ginsberg, a French language teacher); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. The son of a cantor, Vaudevillian Howard made his debut at twelve as a boy soprano, scored his big hits teamed with older brother Eugene in the Shuberts' Winter Garden revues and George White's Scandals...
...from Colorado (Columbia) puts a reverse twist on the old story of the G.I. who comes home from the wars and hires his colonel to sweep out the office. This time, the colonel (Glenn Ford) returns to Colorado territory after the Civil War, becomes a judge, and proceeds to mop up the prison floors with men formerly in the cavalry with...