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...Franklin in Paris is a title in search of a show. This Ben (Robert Preston) is no American Renaissance man but a Broadway showman in knee britches who treats his inventions-the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, the rocking chair-as enticing props to con the yokels of Louis XVI's court. The court is ostensibly Versailles, but the real milieu is the chandelier-lit ballroom of half a hundred interchangeable musicals in which girls in flowing period gowns go swirling into musical-comedy oblivion...
...denouncing the John Birch Society and other groups on "the radical right." In 1961, after defending the right of California's maverick Bishop James A. Pike to describe the virgin birth as a myth, Hines withstood criticism with his usual equanimity. "A bishop," he shrugs, "is the lightning rod of the ecclesiastical heavens and sometimes must be prepared for shocks...
Fate Is the Hunter. Consolidated Airlines' Flight 22 lifts off the runway on a routine hop to Seattle. Pilot Rod Taylor takes a cup of coffee from Stewardess Suzanne Pleshette, trades a quip or two. Suddenly a bell clangs in the cockpit, a light blinks a warning on the control panel. "Engine blew," snaps Taylor. In two-engine-aircraft dramas, troubles never come singly. The tower reports three other planes blocking the path back to the strip. The radio goes dead. And of course Engine No. 2 conks out. Flight 22 crash-lands on a deserted beach, bellies safely...
...would not answer him and he was very upset." Oswald left the house for nearly an hour?during which time he was presumably out in the garage, disassembling his rifle and placing it in the brown paper bag he had brought with him to carry "curtain rods" back to his boardinghouse. Next morning he left for his job in Dallas, the "curtain rod" bag in hand...
Says the Commission: "The preponderance of the evidence supports the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald 1) told the curtain-rod story to Frazier to explain both the return to Irving on a Thursday and the obvious bulk of the package which he intended to bring to work the next day; 2) took paper and tape from the wrapping bench of the Depository and fashioned a bag large enough to carry the disassembled rifle; 3) removed the rifle from the blanket in the Paine garage on Thursday evening; 4) carried the rifle into the Depository building, concealed...