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...week, in view of the many big names (e.g., Adlai Stevenson) that rumor had bandied about as possible successors to Dodds, Goheen was as startled as anyone over "this elevation to sudden eminence." But like Harvard and Yale before it, Princeton had dipped into obscurity and pulled out a plum. "He is," says Classicist Oates of Goheen. "one of the ablest men in the whole damn teaching profession...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Dec. 24, 9:30 p.m., NBC) departs from its straight drama format to present the prize plum of the Christmas pudding-Gian Carlo Menotti's stirring Amahl and the Night Visitors (in color). The tele-opera gets for its seventh TV performance a new Amahl, ten-year-old Kirk Jordan...
...long-into a book of ten pages. Eliot at Christmastime, as might be expected, is no Dickens. He opens magisterially: "There are several attitudes towards Christmas''-and proceeds to plead for the child's attitude. He cannot, of course, help noticing the cosmic worm in the plum pudding ("The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure"). But on the whole he is pleasant, his rhymeless phrases are more precisely tooled than Christmas tree ornaments, and the total effect is that of a very small and shaded candle...
...Democrat, who went to Yale (1933) and was graduated from Yale Law School, nevertheless underlines his kinship with the Italo-American, whose estimated 300,000 votes represent an attractive plum in a state where 30,000 pluralities are common. A former U.S. Representative, he served as State Treasurer for two and a half years under Governor Paul Dever, whose sopping brow inundated the nation's TV sets during his keynote speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Furcolo, who has been criticized as "Dever's man" for his fair-haired position in the last Democratic Administration, lost...
...last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor, desperate, begged them to spare her, but in vain. She was hanged with her own silk scarf from a young plum tree. "Oh God!" cried the emperor, his heart broken, when they brought her body to him. "Will this bring peace to my people...