Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GARRISON'S GORILLAS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A tough, cynical band of American convicts is pressed into service as behind-enemy-lines guerrillas in World War II. Ron Harper stars as Lieut. Garrison, the officer assigned to ride herd on the hoods. In the premiere, "The Big Con," the gang sets out to capture enemy plates used to print bogus U.S. currency...
...weirdest novel since John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy, British historian and playwright Andrew Sinclair mounts a time machine and takes a wild ride through history...
...Truman's troubled days. "I remember in 1948," he says, "there wasn't a single person I could find who would say a good word about Harry Truman. There were 23 members of the Texas delegation, and only two of us would get on the train and ride with him." Perhaps the analogy explains the currently high influence in the White House of Lawyer Clark Clifford, who helped plan Truman's uphill campaign in 1948. In 1968, for all his sanguine murmurings today, Johnson may find himself in a similar position...
Died. Esther Forbes, 76, author who breathed fresh life into Colonial Amer ica in eleven well-received books, won the 1942 Pulitzer history prize for her Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (while waiting in North Boston to start his famous ride, he realized that he'd forgotten his spurs, sent his dog home with a note asking that they be brought to him), a year later wrote Johnny Tremain, a historical novel aimed at teen-agers but flavorful enough for adults; of rheumatic heart disease; in Worcester, Mass...
Bonnie and Clyde. Bang bang! go the guns, and the bank guard falls dead, his face oozing ketchup from every pore. Twang twang! goes the banjo, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ride off in a stolen flivver for further merriment, murder and mayhem...