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...less than three years. It presents the case of a fellow who can disrobe women with his eyes. This faculty frightens Teas, so Teas flees. Eventually he goes to a female psychiatrist. When she, too, loses her clothing under his regard, he finally accepts his fate. One of the weirder facts about these films is that many of the actors use their .own names; Teas, for example, is played by a photographer named W. Ellis Teas. Not Tonight Henry stars Nightclub Performer Hank Henry, who has just been named Las Vegas' Father of the Year...
...weirder routines, Bruce imagines Evangelist Oral Roberts putting in a long-distance call to the Vatican: "Hello, John, what's shaking, baby? Say, that puff of white smoke was genius. By the way, Billy Graham wants to know if you can get him a deal on those Eyetalian sports cars." Appearing at San Francisco's hungry i last week (at $2,500 a week), Bruce seemed to amuse most of the customers, outraged many, and quickly got into a feud with the San Francisco Chronicle's celebrated columnist Herb Caen, who called Bruce a bore. Lenny retaliated...
Wide & Weird. The world of electronic journalism that Murrow bestrides runs a course far wider than the one from the tabloids to the Times and weirder than anything in between. It echoes with the weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance...
With the right kind of clearance to a U.S. missile base, the visitor will find there, maneuvering amid weird lunar landscapes and weirder towers, blockhouses and cables, perhaps an ebullient scientist in an aloha shirt, or a fresh-faced lieutenant from M.I.T. handling millions of dollars worth of rocketry, or a gentle German in tweeds who helped Hitler build his V2, or even a space-fiction writer, intense and bespectacled, nosing about the U.S. military establishment for ideas. These are tomorrow...
...weirder they are, the more noticeable the advertisement that the owner can afford a brand...