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...joyously accept the verdict of my party ... I shall possibly be enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night," said Henry Fountain Ashurst, "or the scarlet glories of her blooming cactus, the petrified forest which leafed through its green millenniums, and put on immortality 7,000 years ago." That was in 1940 when Orator Ashurst, defeated for reelection, was delivering his swan song in the Senate. Last week, 14 years later, Ashurst, lively and loquacious as ever at 79, was still living in Washington. Widower Ashurst is a perennially popular extra man at the parties...
Kraft Television Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). The Scarlet Letter...
Sprawled in the governor's chair, wearing a crumpled white linen suit and the blue-and-scarlet tie of the Grenadier Guards, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton listened patiently to the representatives of 6,000,000 Africans, 100,000 Indians, 40,000 whites and 25,000 Arabs The whites wanted martial law and an all-out offensive against the Mau Mau. The others wanted a share in the colony's all-white government. For nine days Lyttelton was silent; on the tenth day he spoke. He proposed a drastic constitutional revision whose main features were 1) a four...
Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel. A Boston travel agent, Harvardman Grimes, 32, married a German war widow who had come to the U.S. to study at Columbia University. His wife Irmgard had left her two young daughters by her first marriage in East Germany with her father, but she and Peter quickly agreed that the family should be brought together...
Forbidden (Universal-International) is not to be confused with Dangerous Mission just because it has almost exactly the same plot. This one is set not in Glacier Park but in "the seething city of Macao" on China's southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only...