Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HATFUL OF RAIN (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Sandy Dennis, Peter Falk, Michael Parks and Herschel Bernardi star in the TV version of Michael Gazzo's Broadway play about a drug addict's attempts to kick the habit...
...more dangerous occupation for newsmen representing all media. Many correspondents are working under enemy fire-as ours were last week in the process of reporting for this issue's stories on the war. Bureau Chief William Rademaekers was based in combustible Saigon, as were Correspondents Don Sider, Peter Vanderwicken and John Cantwell. After covering the bitter fighting in Hué, Karsten Prager flew out to Danang to send his report...
...given short shrift on M:I Geller & Co. instead believe in fast plots, dazzling footwork, bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that has been stolen or prevent the supervillains from achieving some dastardly...
...brother of Gunsmoke's Jim Arness, browses through photos of available M:I agents. He invariably chooses Barbara Bain, the group's sexy smoke screen; Martin Landau (in real life Barbara's husband), master of sleight of hand and disguise; Greg Morris, ace engineer; and Peter Lupus, strong man. The team sets off to the rescue without informing the audience of its plan-which is always a variation of the con game. Each operative wins the enemy's trust by playing a separate innocent role; together, they catch the villain off balance when everything clicks...
...Died. Peter Arno, 64, celebrated cartoonist whose deft barbs sharpened the pages of The New Yorker for 43 years; of emphysema; in Port Chester, N.Y. In hundreds of New Yorker cartoons, the urbane Arno (born Curtis Arnoux Peters) aimed his thrusts at wattled old roues ("Tell me about yourself, your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number"), besabled matrons and their derby-hatted husbands ("Come on-we're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt"), flappers with more booze than brain in their heads ("Ixnay, Edith, I just found out we're at the wrong party"). Some...