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...clad women marched in silent funeral-like procession on the presidential palace carrying the Cuban flag and a banner reading CEASE EXECUTION OF OUR SONS. A mob gathered to shout insults at the marchers, but individual soldiers left the crowd to protect the women, permitted them to make their mute protest, then escorted them away to safety. The rebels in the hills were filtering down at night to capture militiamen on lonely guard duty, promising Castro an eye for an eye, a hanging for a shooting, each time an oppositionist was killed...
...Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing, there is an eccentric, selfish old woman who sees her deaf-mute daughter on the point of finding happiness and refuses to let it come about. But motives and actions are never simple in an Elliott story. Each of the three, girl, man and old lady, could resolve the business in a moment. What stops them from taking the decisive step is a flaw in character, the underlying subject of the story...
...Pont Show with June Allyson (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Harpo Marx, in a rare dramatic role, as a death-dogged deaf-mute in Silent Panic...
...boots, Howdy Doody was mostly a 27-in. block of lemonwood. His voice was supplied by Actor Bob Smith, who also played Buffalo Bob, billed as "the great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians." Perhaps even more than they will miss Howdy or Bob, U.S. kids will miss the mute clown, Clarabell, who always sounded a sweet horn to indicate "yes," a sour one for "no" (the part, recently played by Lew Anderson, was originated by Bob Keeshan, who is the enduring star of CBS's Captain Kangaroo). And with them all went a memorable list of supporting figures...
...wrote Pierre J. Huss of the Hearst Headline Service. "In coming here as a U.N. delegate, your intentions are all bad. You can leave any time, and good riddance." Hearst's New York Journal-American besought all New York to join in 60 seconds of silence "as a mute memorial to victims of Red tyranny," and later headlined a story of a few anti-Communist demonstrations in New York: HATE ROARS OVER CITY LIKE A PENT-UP FLOOD. But it was left to a paper in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y. to set a dubious sort of journalistic record...