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Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca. Guest: Eva Gabor...
This time Marquand worries the theme too doggedly, all but writes his book twice. For Sidney Skelton, the novel's narrator, is a highly successful newsbroadcaster who also has the taste of ashes in his mouth, and so rates a pretty full Marquand treatment himself. Sid hates his broadcasting job with its phony buildup. A working newspaperman, he has made good too fast on nothing but a pleasant voice. He can't get used to his big new house in Connecticut or to his wife's yearning to make the social grade...
...Sid and the general see things through together-with Sid anticipating the outcome the first time General Mel turns up in civvies: "He looked like a plump and middle-aged nonentity, whom you might meet at a golf club and immediately forget, and whose face you could not place." The general's Pentagon pals try to break up the affair with Dottie, but they needn't have worked so hard at it. It was never Dottie's idea to live in a cottage with a general turned nonentity. She decides to ditch him, but has the good...
...Women's Cards. In the end, dumpy Muriel Goodwin runs her hero husband just as she has run him since high-school days. And, up in Connecticut, Mrs. Skelton wins too: Sid decides to stick at his job to make his wife and daughter happy. In marriage, Novelist Marquand seems to be saying a little petulantly, the women hold all the cards...
Benny's attitude towards the Crimson eleven was best summed up by Sid, one of his assistants: "Win or lose, Benny doesn't forget them when they're down...