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...memos ranged from a pep talk on meeting the threat of television ("Quality is the only answer") to a query on a line of dialogue ("Can we get by with the word 'louse'? I thought it was taboo"). One memo noted that the titles in a trailer for a new movie were a "trifle too lurid." Another instructed a producer shooting in London not to use fog in any more scenes, "as it is very uneven." Still another suggested putting a new writer on a story in preparation: "It would be a four-or five-week...
...telephone lines. Cities get along with three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent out to local stations over the air instead of over land-line circuits...
Giuseppe Verdi composed his most fettlesome opera, Falstaff, when he was nearing 80. Last week, white-fringed little Arturo Toscanini, who learned how to play some of Verdi's operas from the famed composer himself some 60 years ago, proved he still had the pep at 83 to conduct a fettlesome performance of Falstaff...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC and NBC-TV). Featherweight championship fight: Willie Pep v. France's Ray Famechon...
...friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean set: "At first I thought it was crazy. Then it kinda irritated me." He rearranged it, added some notes and a little pep & polish. Sample of the finished product...