Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forces), bossed by able, flamboyant old SACman General Emmett O'Donnell Jr., organizes its 650 combat planes into 35 squadrons-fewer than those of the combined totals of the U.S.'s Far East allies. "Rosie" O'Donnell keeps his planes and his men in a superb state of readiness. Not for him the promises of the other services about next year's capabilities. "They are always saying, 'Let me tell you what I'm going to do to Philadelphia Jack O'Brien when I get in the ring with him,' " says...
Dore Schary's film version of his Broadway success develops Franklin Roosevelt's ordeal by polio into a superior drama that is also a superb soap opera-and one of the year's shrewder pieces of political propaganda. Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson make wonderful theater out of Franklin and Eleanor...
Project Twenty (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.).* A superb abridgment of the 1952-53 documentary series Victory at Sea, with the excellent original score by Richard Rodgers...
...greatest hands of the High Renaissance, and the result is one television show that will probably be run and rerun-in churches, schools, art courses, and over the air. Scheduled for this week (Wednesday, Dec. 21), The Coming of Christ is the latest in NBC's superb Project Twenty series, uses the same technique of still photographs and quiet narration that made television masterpieces of 1959's Meet Mr. Lincoln and last April's Mark Twain's America...
This one, however, is in color; brilliant reproductions-from Rubens to Rembrandt-fill the screen, with occasionally interspersed photographs of the pastel landscape of the Holy Land as it is now. Accompanied by a superb Robert Russell Bennett score, detail follows detail from the works of the masters-the pale, thin-lipped face of the Virgin in Rogier van der Weyden's Annunciation, fearful tears in the aged eyes of a Jordaens shepherd, Massys' open-mouthed Magi. Skillfully but not trickily panning across the pictures from face to face, scene to scene, Producer-Director Donald Hyatt achieves...