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...Civil War oater, Don Murray is a penniless former slave owner and Otis Young is a quick-witted former slave. No Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand the sight of his erstwhile oppressor. Since straight-shooting hands are hard to find, he takes Murray on as a temporary sidekick. Whitey does not cotton to the setup either, and the two bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white relationship is a departure for TV "realism." Whether it can be made as durable as the warm, three-year-long buddyship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: The New Season (Contd.) | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Julia (NBC, Tuesday, 8:30-9 p.m.). Diahann Carroll, in her own series, is a black registered nurse who is trying to make it in whitey's world. Widowed Julia has a five-year-old son Cory, played by a winning little fellow named Marc Copage. They are pretty well off, judging from the nifty apartment they occupy. Still, Julia needs a job. She is turned away by America's only personnel director who is not desperate to hire Negroes. Fortunately, she finds a protector in cantankerous Dr. Chegley (Lloyd Nolan), who doesn't care what color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: The New Season | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...Minnesota Twins, he scattered nine hits, struck out twelve, and coasted to an 8-3 victory?his 28th of the year against only five losses. With perhaps five starts still ahead of him, McLain has already surpassed the best single-season performances of Carl Hubbell, Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Whitey Ford and Sandy Koufax. No one has approached his performances in 16 years, and just two more victories will make him the first 30-game winner since Dizzy Dean turned the trick in 1934. These figures may make Denny baseball's man of the year. In Detroit, they have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tiger Untamed | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...year-old Jerry Koosman (17-10) and 23-year-old Tom Seaver (14-9). "Pitchers never used to mature until they were 27 or 28," says Manager Walter Alston of the Los Angeles Dodgers. "Sandy Koufax was 27 when he first won 20 games in a season; Whitey Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tiger Untamed | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Mean Mischief These new books offer some value as footnotes to the argument. Julius Lester is a former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His Look Out, Whitey! is a long harangue that reproduces accurately the black tone of voice at its angriest. It is street-corner oratory aimed at blacks but spoken, as the mean mischief of the title suggests, with sly awareness of the whites standing at the edge of the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: America as It Now Exists | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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