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...Robert Preston, this disaster's star, noted recently that it's the most "literary" play he's read in years, and indeed it is. Take, for example, the twelfth century similes: "You're like the rocks of Stonehenge, nothing can knock you down;" or, "You're dull as plainsong." or then again, "You're so foul you're fair." At times, it seems like the entire purpose of the drama is to show that the Plantagnets were, after all, just folks. "You're a failure as a father," the adolescent Prince John accuses the King, while the Queen muses, "Children...
THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Robert Preston narrates "The Sun Country," a special on Texas. Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, with New Mexican (by adoption) Greer Garson and Oklahoman (by birth) Pamela Tiffin pointing out some of the sights...
...Saturday, December 18 THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A special celebrating the Great Plains and the Rockies, narrated by Robert Preston, Laraine Day and Mildred Dunnock; music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Rosebud Sioux Indians, who will sing their new tribal song, Seventy-Six Trombones...
SAINT NORBERT COLLEGE The late C. Leo De Orsey, LL.D., tax attorney. Even a partial list of his clients is testimony to his success: Charles Wilson, General Omar Bradley, Edward R. Murrow, Arthur Godfrey, George Preston Marshall, General Curtis LeMay, Ted Williams, Max Factor...
Harvard is the set for a TV show today. Robert Preston and a 17-man camera crew will stop by at 10 a.m., on a search from Maine to Maryland to get some footage on "the joys and wonders of America...