Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The week's hottest gunfight: a re-creation of The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, an upright youth who gunned down a rampaging mob for 33 hours to bring order to a small New Mexico town...
...urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan's WNTA-TV (says he: "I speak foully...
Hamlett's shift in direction mattered considerably to the drowsy Berber market town of Azrou, in the Middle Atlas Mountains. Last week, six months after his arrival, most of Azrou's 4,000 rug weavers, wood carvers and farmers were erudite enough to flavor their conversation with at least a few words of English-spoken with recognizable Tennessee drawls. And the strange rhythms of U.S. natives, as recorded in the waxings of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, are now familiar in a region where no American had ever lived until Hamlett came there six months...
Free-Style Debates. For all his foreign ways, 33-year-old Teacher Hamlett is accepted in the mountain town. He wears a black djellabah, and because he is a Negro is sometimes mistaken for a native. Said one Moroccan merchant: "He is completely at home here...
...Date Town. Other valiant adventurers in the book include Hungarian-born Arminius Vambery, who disguised himself as a dervish in 1863 and traveled for ten months through Central Asia; American Januarius MacGahan, the special correspondent of the New York Herald, who dodged both Cossacks and Turkoman cavalry in his daring 1873 coverage of the Russian conquest of Khiva; Irishman Edmund O'Donovan, representing the London Daily News, who was simultaneously held prisoner and elected prince by the Tekke tribesmen of desolate Merv. Said O'Donovan: "It is well worth while to have lived among the Tekkes to know...