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EXAMINING the status of television in the troubled first weeks of another season, SHOW BUSINESS turns at cover length to the Private Eyes. Two seasons back, the giveaways dominated the air, and last year the major switch was out of the claustrophobic isolation booth into the West's wide-open spaces. This year, while the Westerns still lead the race for ratings and no week passes without at least a couple of "specials," the Private Eye is muscling in as the top gun. As for the cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin says the five big Eyes ran gun-first...
...purified by righteous and legitimate anger-and become, at last, devastatingly effective." Properly presented, he is as much a part of American legend as the super-cowboy, just as surely escapes the conventional, rule-ridden world by taking the law into his own hands. He does not know the wide-open spaces or the purple sage, but the narrow, closed-in spaces of saloons, and the windswept, nighttime highway can give him a similar sense of freedom. "The Private Eye show," says David (Richard Diamond) Janssen, "has the same elements as the western: the hero is invincible; he gets...
...third quarter was marked by wide-open play and several near misses. Early in the period fullback Lanny Keyes, again playing a fine game on defense, booted away a shot aimed straight at the goal...
...more he liked the idea of coaching in a school that selects its students by competitive exams, and where parties and panty raids are no problem. Graham shipped aboard with the rank of commander in the Coast Guard Reserve, last month set about teaching the pro's wide-open passing game to his cadets...
...impact of this intuition is reduced to that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists. The wide-open mind which accepts anything in the name of art is one of the worst threats that artists face...