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That Darn Cat. Come December, Walt Disney can be relied upon to deliver a big, bright Christmasy gewgaw for the holiday trade. Sometimes it is a stray animal epic, sometimes a folksy romantic comedy, sometimes a wholesome teen-age adventure. This year it is all three, wrapped around the substantial screen presence of Hayley Mills, who goes gumshoeing on the trail of a criminal tomcat while her sister (Dorothy Provine) scrutinizes FBI Agent Dean Jones. Hayley nips through her role as though English accents were an absolute must among subdebs of Southern California, and Scrooge himself might unbend when...
Though Cat is often too cute for words, it is not too cute for music. A soundtrack orchestra plays so puckishly that seasoned Disney fans are apt to expect an interlude of mating tarantulas. Instead Uncle Walt opts for a conventional fur-flying climax, and by fadeout time the heroic Siamese has somehow sired a litter of adorable kittens. Such bounties adequately fill a kid's stocking, but parents not previously afflicted with cat allergy may well feel the first faint sniffle...
...mile run, workhorse Dave Allen will be setting the pace. Walt Hewlett, the poet of the multifurlong footrace, definitely won't run because of leg injuries...
...almost like old times-distressingly so. There in the Nielsen top ten last week were the old familiar faces, from NBC's Bonanza, in first place for the second year, to Gomer Pyle, The Farmer's Daughter, Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Walt Disney and Bewitched. There was Red Skelton, now in his 12th year and ranked No. 6. And back into the lead surged CBS,* which is still indebted to its fired ex-president, James Aubrey, for almost all of its current programming, including six out of the top nine...
...TACKLES: Walt Barnes, 21, Nebraska, 6 ft. 3 in., 252 lbs., and George Rice, 21, Louisiana State, 6 ft. 3 in., 255 lbs. Barnes, some scouts insist, is the nation's No. 1 college player: "If Jimmy Brown could get through him, he'd really be earning his pay." Rice is "a kid with the arms of a blacksmith. He knocks enemy guards flat on their butts with just a flick of his elbow...