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...world has been brought up to look rather than to listen. This week he goes on TV with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers will have to look at is Actor Laughton himself, a fat man in a rumpled suit, leaning on a stool placed on a table. But they will hear his sonorous voice descend to a whisper and rise to a shout as he reads stories from the Bible and Guy de Maupassant, from James Thurber and Dickens and Thomas Wolfe...
Last week, after weeks of fruitless argument during which the Vienna police remained adamant, Rudolph moved on to Linz and climbed into his bottle. It was a huge, steel-framed affair, seven feet tall. Taking with him an air mattress, a camp stool and two Syrian snakes "for company," Rudolph entered one side of the bottle. Then arc welders sealed him in, leaving only an 8-in. bottleneck open at the top. For the next year, Rudolph plans to live in bottled luxury on vitamin pills and write his memoirs. And if no one comes to see him? Well...
Weakest leg of the three-legged stool (army, church & Falange) which supports General Franco in power is the Falange. Thirteen years of political stock-jobbery have riddled the Falange like a colander. Recently, seeking American aid, Franco has played down the role of the party that was once his pride & joy. But last week, his quest for money, military aid and international friendship beginning to seem fruitless, Franco decided to build up the Falange again...
...motives. Several members of the Teachers' Union made unfriendly remarks about their former associate, Bella Dodd, a repentant Communist who had been a friendly witness two weeks before (TIME, Sept. 22). Said Art Teacher Irving Glucksman: "I don't want to be a victim of any lying stool pigeon or any religious fanatic who thinks he is serving God by impoverishing the minds of children...
...people on the job, along with a vast assortment of tape recorders, hand mikes, minicorders, walkie-talkies, peepie-creepies and periscopes (TIME, July 14). In the main control room in a Jittle room off the first balcony, Pool Director Bob Doyle (of ABC) sat on a high stool scanning TV screens from seven cameras, selecting the picture to go out over the air. In addition to the pool, each network placed cameras at strategic spots around the city, and frequently left the pool to follow its own stories...