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...TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The fellow who made a mint writing about his adventures as a professional amateur sportsman now takes up tails and triangle for an insider's view of the workings of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra: "The Secret Musical Life or George Plimpton...
Wednesday, January 24 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* In "Physical Phitness," Art Carney plays host to such sports-and spectators-as Carl Yastrzemski, Joe Garagiola, Roosevelt Grier, Pat O'Brien, George Plimpton and Don Rickles...
...addition to the white coral beach, Obolensky offered for diversion gambling at the casino until 6 a.m. In the afternoon, he organized an exhibition tennis match, pitting Pancho Segura and Dina Merrill against Pancho Gonzales and Janet Leigh. And when George (Paper Lion) Plimpton leaped onto the court with a cry of "Tennis, anyone?" the Beautiful People sensibly took it as a signal to leap back into their limousines and depart...
Among the known nonfiction quantities will be Inside Australia, by John Gunther, a new Julia Child cookbook, a determined tract about women by Feminist Betty Friedan, George Plimpton on a new swinging golfer named George Plimpton, some solemn warnings by General James Gavin, and some unsolemn ones from William F. Buckley Jr. William Manchester is back at work on his study of the Krupp industrial empire; both Robert Lowell and James Dickey have new books of poetry...
Little did anyone suspect that Oil Magnate J. Paul Getty, 74, is really the George Plimpton of Billionaire's Row. But at an Anglo-American Sporting Club dinner in London in honor of Jack Dempsey, 72, Getty recalled that 44 years ago he and the then-champion had climbed into the ring together. "Jack is one of the real heroes in my life," the oilman gushed. "We went two rounds together in Saratoga in 1923, and he convinced me I would never make a boxer. He knew just how much I could take." Countered Gentleman Jack: "On the contrary...