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...first attempts at the stage; she was hampered by a Grand Ole Opry accent learned in her native Knoxville. She quit college after her father's death and helped support her family by singing at women's clubs and speaking the part of Sleeping Beauty in Walt Disney's movie. But soon she was selling cars on TV, where her Greer Garson beauty and Grace Kelly style quickly made her one of the best in the business. She made her opera debut in Los Angeles in 1958 after Jack Benny talked her into taking herself seriously...
...club's surest shooter (22 points per game), Guard Gail Goodrich, has to stand on tiptoe to prove that he is really 6 ft. 1 in. like the program says. The closest thing U.C.L.A. has to a legitimate All-America candidate is 6-ft. 2-in. Guard Walt Hazzard, who averages 18 points a game, thrills fans with his fancy dribbling and behind-the-back passes-but sometimes plays defense, says a rival scout, "like a spectator." No matter. So far, U.C.L.A. has knocked off such highly touted opponents as Kansas State (78-75), Michigan (98-80) and Illinois...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. Walt Disney's appealing package of holiday fauna contains a bull terrier, a Labrador retriever and a Siamese cat, all letting the fur fly on a 250-mile trek through the Canadian wilds...
...WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Dumbo, popular cartoon about the big-eared baby elephant who ends the jeers by learning to fly. Color...
...Eliot nor profited by exposure to the likes of William Carlos Williams. The complaint is true, but beside the point. Voznesensky and Evtushenko invite useful comparison not with the sophisticated Western poets of today but with Carl Sandburg singing of the Western plains or the chest-thumping celebrations of Walt Whitman. Like Sandburg, and like the U.S. folk singers who make up rhymes for the freedom riders, the new Soviet poets tend to alternate between lyrical simplicity and passionate rhetoric, as in these excerpts translated in Encounter...