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...manners, it contains a refresher course in gentility for the comrades, who have long been taught as part of Communist dogma to regard all high manners as decadent. Its author is a Prague psychiatrist, Milena Majorová, who reminds her readers at the outset that "human beings are not polar bears -they are not satisfied with merely a female of the species and enough food...
Comrade Majorová is also concerned about some of the polar bears who turn up on crowded Czech trams and in train compartments. "People in dirty work clothes should not get on public transport, because they will soil other people's clothes," she writes. "In the train, don't fall asleep on a stranger's knee." Nor should comradely formalities be overdone. Don't, for instance, shout the reverent Communist greeting, "Honor to labor!" to a friend who is sunbathing on the beach: such enthusiasm, she warns, "could appear ironic." More important, when greeting a woman...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
...freshmen enjoyed an equally successful debut, clobbering the Polar Cubs...
Bowdoin came roaring back in the second period, and when wing Bob McGuirk tipped in a Tim Sullivan pass from the corner of the crease after six minutes, the Polar Bears were only down...