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Adapted by Director David (Great Expectations') Lean and Novelist H. E. Bates from the Broadway success, The Time of the Cuckoo, the script has dropped overboard many of the plot gimmicks that Playwright Arthur Laurents used as cogs for stage action. With them go some of the harsher truths about the career girl's character and therefore any possibility of comparing Hepburn's performance with that of Shirley Booth in the stage play. The movie is scarcely more than a charming idyl, and it ends only because Kate is convinced that "All my life...
...that there was a better way of teaching reading. It was learned that the mature reader does not spell his way through words, letter by letter, but reads by phrases. Besides, educators found that an exclusive diet of phonics bored children and produced slow, laborious readers. So they went overboard for the word-memory system, which they called...
Confusion in the Everglades Sir: Re your April 25 Fisherman Nixon item: TIME went overboard on that 18-ft. alligator story. There aren't any 18-ft. alligators anywhere, anytime, in Florida. So good little Republican boys and traitorous little Democratic boys are in no danger of being swallowed...
...Billy Graham's understandable reluctance to include man's dumb friends in his ministrations . . . Follows the RELIGION section. Good taste prohibits critical comment of other people's devotional gymnastics . . . CINEMA includes a review of a minister's filmed biography. Boy, oh boy, did you go overboard! We cannot help but admire the fine attitude of your reviewer, who bewails the fact that "the story has depressingly little to say about religion . . ." You strike the final blow for the church in BOOKS-by printing the miserable caricature of Charles Darwin . . . Perhaps I should change my reading habits...
...While fishing (for the first time in his life) and trying to hook savage snook in the Florida Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene of the splash: an 18-ft. alligator usually found lolling there. Later, when his guide careened the boat in too tight a 180° turn, all aboard got dipped. Muttered plucky Dick Nixon, snookless, bedraggled and amazed: "I didn't think it could happen twice...