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Many thanks for your March 3 article "Gun, Gat & Rod." With the exception of a very few, all children's shows on the current TV programs seem to be composed of nothing but gangsters, tough cowboys, blustering, blood & thunder pictures which give every child from Maine to Louisiana the idea that it is right and honorable and pure heroism to shoot and kill in cold blood. At the tender age of four years, my daughter has a well-established idea that it is nice to shoot people...
Within hours after Eden and Acheson proclaimed the new dawn, new difficulties came up like thunder. Britain, France and Italy made clear that they will need more American dollars. The French announced that because of their galloping inflation they will be able to raise only twelve divisions by year's end-not 14, as promised...
...symbol of a social movement, or the hero of Mexican folklore--in short, he could not be the real Zapata or even a believable facsimile. And with its central figure reduced to such a nonentity, the tale of Emiliano Zapata becomes a trail of disjointed, purposeless blood and thunder...
Over the weekend, two batteries of big guns--the American Council on Education and the Ivy League presidents--poured salvo after salvo into the battered and rotted hulk of once-proud college athletics. When the thunder had died away, a couple of crewmen of the punished vessel, Petty Officers Caldwell and Jordan, fired one final round against the foes of spring practice, and then struck their ensign...
Towers himself produces about 35 shows in Britain (TIME, July 7, 1947), and he owns the foreign rights to some 100 more. They range from such cultural items as Sir Thomas Beecham's classical disk-jockey show to a blood & thunder crime series starring Orson Welles. Of the London-made programs, only two-Welles's The Black Museum and The Gracie Fields Show-are heard on a U.S. network (Mutual), but many of the others have been sold to individual U.S. stations. In turn, Towers exports to Britain and the Commonwealth nations such American series as The Hardy...