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RICHARD E. SPENCER...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner reads like an Arthur Goldberg speech, one of his more interminable. It is the ninth and last film to employ the talents of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and for that distinction a picture worth seeing; but on all other counts it stinks. Stanley Kramer has degenerated from one of Hollywood's more interesting bad moviemakers into one of its most maudlin. The crude but somehow compelling live-TV quality of Judgment at Nuremberg and Ship of Fools, painted with crayon and musicalized by DeVol, blessed with Sidney Poitier, reveals Kramer...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Second semifinal bout in the elimination tournament to find a new heavyweight boxing champion: Thad Spencer v. Jerry Quarry, live from Oakland, Calif...
NEWS that the Supreme Court had approved the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads was warmly received in the editorial offices of TIME. Nearly half the staffers commute by rail, and many of them brought questions to Associate Editor Spencer Davidson, who was writing the cover story. Did the merger mean that they would soon be riding in newer, cleaner cars? Would the schedules be more reliable? Conductors less surly...
...hope that this inaccurate review has no adverse effect on what is sure to be an excellent HRO concert in May. Spencer Roedder...