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Bitter Honeymoon, by Alberto Moravia. Sardonic short stories from the fine Italian hand of one of the ablest novelists alive on his favorite theme, the battle of the sexes-that war in which all victories are Pyrrhic (TIME...
Inside Beverly Hills was neither true, good nor beautiful, but it got inside most U.S. TV homes, was seen by an estimated 54 million people. Said Sullivan, on hearing the bad news: "NBC won a Pyrrhic victory. It took 25 stars to beat me." This week, with NBC once again throwing comedy into the Sunday-at-8 spot, Sullivan could feel confident that the network would not soon repeat its coup of tempting so many viewers to look at so many stars in so indifferent a show...
...first place. Even if Yugoslavia were elected, the U.S. would not lose its virtual control of the Security Council, despite an occasional Yugoslav-Russian compact. Two voters are no more effective than one. If the U.S. bludgeons its allies into electing the Philippines, however, it will score only a Pyrrhic victory. In order to save face, the U.S. delegation could abstain from voting, itself, but it should put its tacit yet influential support behind Yugoslavia...
...Pyrrhic victory for Avery, for the meeting did give 43-year-old Challenger Wolfson part of what he had come for: public proof that 81 years had dulled the once razor-sharp mind of Sewell Avery. It would be invaluable ammunition for the onslaught Wolfson plans to make again next year...
According to Trendex, CBS's big show, Best of Broadway, outscored its competition, NBC's This Is Your Life, 23.9 to 19.9. But it was a Pyrrhic victory, for This Is Your Life was showing-for the third time-its year-old episode dealing with Singer Lillian Roth's recovery from alcoholism. Hubbell Robinson, CBS vice president in charge of TV programming, conceded the rating was "not as overpoweringly high as we had hoped." He added: "It seems to me that we're going to find out whether the public will buy these things. I hope...