Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small office amid a clutter of gingerbready desks, cheaply painted walls. He lunches in S.-P.'s small dining room; one of his favorite dishes is hash. His home life is just as plain. A man who cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown wreck, sanded his own floors, put in plumbing and electricity. On his 80 acres he raises cattle (56 beefy Herefords) and corn (yield: no bu. per acre), enjoys gardening (from Bibb lettuce to small yews) and finishing furniture in his home workshop...
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A rollicking rerun of one western kidding another. George Montgomery has a high old time playing the hard-eyed hero of Have Sword, Will Duel...
Wild Strawberries (Swedish). For art-movie fans, the Bergman to reckon with is not Ingrid but Ingmar, a prolific writerdirector; in this haunting movie, he explores the spiritually empty space behind the busy life of an eminent old doctor...
MURDER AND BLUEBERRY PIE, by Frances and Richard Lockridge (192 pp.; Lippincott; $2.95), sets some highly improbable booby traps for the Lockridges' nice, likable people in their quaintly respectable Connecticut town. The authors are such old hands at making their characters and backgrounds believable that the reader is persuaded to accept the whole bag of outrageous melodrama: hanky-panky with a million-dollar will, baffling telephone calls in the middle of the night, mysterious footprints on the terrace, the fatal mugging of a key suspect, pursuit by a killer through a raging summer storm. Deserving of Favorite Sleuth status...
...Archibald MacLeish's Job, though grey-flanneled and smartly modern, has real old-fashioned theatrical excitement...