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...much-harried racing tout who "manages" Gobel, Sam Levene plays Sam Levene-and is a welcome comic relief. His eyes are poached eggs that have seen the rise of a thousand false dawns. And with the underworld on his shoulders, he can give Atlas shrugging lessons. But Sam can't sing either...
Among the holdovers from the past season, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr. In Camelot, a new King Arthur (William Squire) presides over the Round Table. Irma La Douce is still the most delectable way to tour the Parisian underworld. Broadway's Carnival! yields nothing to its Hollywood model Lili in poignance and charm-and there is always the grande dame of Manhattan's musicals, My Fair Lady...
...mainland there is some clandestine communist agitation, but from my limited and indirect contacts with the shadowy underworld of agents and counteragents, it appeared that the Africans are taking the communists for a ride. There is a small "party" which calls itself the African National Congress, led by Zuberi Mtemvu, a TANU renegade who recently returned from Peiping with fifteen boiler suits and enough money to buy himself a Mercedes- Benz. The Congress polled 60 votes the first time they ran a candidate, and 67 the second time. (The joke runs that Mtemvu's family had increased by seven during...
...Awash in drink and glory, Newman finds his fingers filling up with whisky, and lets Gleason clean him out. Then, like all the fallen heroes in the legends, he goes down into the underworld. At an all-night coffee counter in a Greyhound bus depot he meets a puffy-pretty alcoholic (Piper Laurie), huts up with her and, whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that...
Cain's Hundred (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of a new series about a lawyer who once defended gangsters in court but has now climbed on the truth-and-beauty train to help the Federal Government hunt down the 100 top criminals in the U.S. underworld...