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...Murray Burns (Jason Robards Jr.) has quit his job as writer for a children's TV show called Chuckles the Chipmunk ("When Sandburg and Faulkner left, I left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this...
Harry Turner was the Crimson entrant in the 1500 meter freestyle, but did not place. USC's Murray Rose took the title with a 17:26.7 clocking...
...changed sufficiently so that we get fewer letters accusing us of being too pro-or too anti-Catholic, or for or against Protestants. It seems now to be generally recognized that we can put on the cover Protestant or Catholic theologians (Reinhold Niebuhr or Father John Courtney Murray), or leaders of the church (Eugene Carson Blake or Pope John), without trying to proselytize. We do stories about Jews, about Buddhists, about Moslems, and occasionally about atheists. We try not to be sensational, but do not mind being controversial...
...going to be very bad. On the other hand, if I issue a statement now backing you up. in effect people will accuse me of condoning wrongdoing." At the height of the fund crisis, Nixon wrote out a letter of withdrawal from the ticket-which his campaign manager, Murray Chotiner. tore up. Even when the telegrams of support for Nixon were.; flooding in after the "Checkers" speech, there was still no message from Eisenhower-owing to garbled communications, as it turned out. Nixon moodily concluded that Ike was still undecided about keeping him on the ticket. At that point...
Robards reveals a brilliant sense of comedy and timing as Murray. He not only wrings the humor briskly from each line, but handles Gardner's serious, poetic commentary on the advantages of childishness with matter-of-fact clarity. Barry Gordon plays the precocious one good-naturedly, thus steering clear of Clichesville...