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...dismissed Couples as an upper-middle-class Peyton Place. It isn't, but it is getting a sensational reception all the same. Only three weeks after publication, the novel is on the bestseller lists. Knopf ordered a huge first printing of 70,000 copies, and Hollywood's Wolper Productions paid $500,000 for the movie rights...
From Cunning to Frenzy. ABC put on Wolper Productions' three-part documentary based on William L. Shirer's exhaustive 1959 history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. "Historical villains can sometimes become heroes as the years pass," says Producer-Director Jack Kaufman. "I think it's important to remind young people not to dismiss past horrors lightly or think of Hitler as a kind of fantasy or legend...
Appearing at various times and dates this week on 101 TV stations in 41 states and the District of Columbia is a 90-minute documentary, China: The Roots of Madness, written by Theodore White (The Making of a President) and produced by David Wolper. It traces the course of China from 1850 to 1950, and while it fails to cope with the current maelstrom, it is a remarkably good slice of history. Wednesday, February 1 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Bradford Dillman and Alex Cord play billiards for a fortune and Jean Simmons...
...addition to crackling prose of a caliber rarely heard on TV, the Xerox Corp.-sponsored program is livened by the affecting personal reminiscences of Pearl Buck, among others-and the crisp editing of David Wolper Productions...
...silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?" Affection or not, Lincoln grew the beard and won the election. His note to Grace survived through three generations in her family, until it was sold at auction last week in Manhattan for $20,000 to TV Documentary Producer David Wolper...