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...GENERAL (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An informal portrait of Douglas Mac-Arthur, narrated by Van Heflin...
...develop into real scoring threats. Although Jan Bollinger, Bruce Caputo, and Mike Leahy are three other lettermen, the man who will probably join these two in the first line is a junior who hasn't played in two years. A series of concussions halted his freshman career, but Harry Van Oudenallen has now received medical clearance to resume the game...
Many of today's artists prefer to call their unlikely likenesses "interpretations" rather than portraits. Abstractionist Hugo Weber became friends with Mies van der Rohe while they both were teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Not until 15 years later did Mies permit a portrait, and then Weber had to sketch while the architect worked at his desk. The blue of Mies's habitual business suit pervades a shoulder-swaying pose as slashing as icy spindrift. Weber still does not know if his subject was pleased, but Mies did buy one of his oils and three drawings...
...Train. The setting is occupied Paris in August 1944. With the Allied liberation at hand, an ascetic Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) orders his troops into the Jeu de Paume Museum to crate up Van Goghs, Utrillos, Manets, Cezannes, Picassos-altogether some 1,200 impressionist and postimpressionist canvases, destined for a rail trip to Berlin. "Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it," says Scofield. Given secret orders to stop the train, a French railroad inspector...
Putnam is presently writing a book Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics, scheduled for publication early next year. Putnam said that one of the decisive factors persuading him to transfer to Harvard has been his work with Willard Van Orman Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, and Rogers G. Albritton, Professor of Philosophy...