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...GAME (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). NBC News explores the exciting, but expensive sport of art collecting. J. Paul Getty, one of the richest and most successful of all collectors, tells how the game is won-while Texas Oilman Algur Meadows, victim of one of the greatest art frauds in history, explains how easy it is to lose. Correspondents Edwin Newman and Aline Saarinen report from art centers in the U.S. and abroad...
...speak out publicly on issues that may come before them in court, but Fortas' purpose was not deflected by the precedent. He even overcame an ingrained dislike of the press to grant at least two interviews to explain his position further; this week he will appear on NBC-TV's Today show. "I had a feeling," he says, "that only one side was being presented, the side of lawlessness. On the other side was a kind of ideological demoralization...
...Land of Giants; Squirt, the handsome young cheetah, now co-starring in Sweet Charity with Shirley Mac-Laine; Tullia, a brand-new cat star at Universal; Rott, the dog who made a name for himself in The Flying Nun; Scruffy, another dog certainly destined for stardom next fall on NBC's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...
Died. William R. McAndrew, 53, director of NBC News since 1951, who devised the hugely successful concept of team news coverage (Huntley-Brinkley) and organized a 1,000-man army of network newsmen; of injuries received in a fall; in Bronxville...
Died. Lenox R. Lohr, 76, president of NBC from 1936 to 1940, who then took over the faltering Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in 1940, and made it one of the world's most popular halls of science; of a heart attack; in Chicago. "A tragedy has occurred in our city," lamented a Chicago physicist on learning that the freewheeling radioman was to head the museum. Yet Lohr gave the public everything from a working German U-boat to a pulsing 16-ft. model of the human heart-all of which drew a record 3,300,000 visitors...