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Down You Go (Wed. 9 p.m., DuMont) is another TV quiz show, this time based on the old parlor game of "Hangman." Unlike many others, it has a relaxed tempo, some briskly intelligent repartee, and gives the impression that the participants are actually enjoying themselves. As moderator, Northwestern University's Dr. Bergen (The Natural History of Nonsense) Evans handles his four-man panel of experts with the assurance of a high-voiced Clifton Fadiman...
...although they sang their English (in a new, bright translation by George and Phyllis Mead) so that every word of the comic story could be understood. Hopping and flapping on the podium, Conductor Scherman whipped up enough enthusiasm among his performers to more than compensate for minor defects in tempo and style...
...high winds of labor trouble, special-interest pressures, politicking and contradictory objectives whistling through Washington are already rattling the windows of Di Salle's office in a drab, slab building known as Tempo (for temporary) E. They may grow strong enough any day to blow down the whole stabilization shebang, Di Salle included...
...quit easy") and a temperament as smooth as Devonshire cream. He rents a two-room apartment-but is rarely there except to sleep (making his own bed afterward) or to fry an occasional egg. By 8 o'clock, he pops into his simple office in Tempo E and opens his door to all comers. After a day of interviews, mobilization meetings and sessions on Capitol Hill, he goes back to work until 1 or 2 a.m. most mornings-sometimes with aides, other times alone...
Near Ichon a battered Greek unit was fighting off a Communist attack, with heavy support from U.S. artillery. Suddenly a higher headquarters silenced the artillery, to call in an air strike. As the big guns stopped, the tempo of the Red attack increased. The Greek commander flourished his pistol at a U.S. artillery liaison officer. "I want artillery!" he raged...