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...BALLOU. Two no-good gunfighters (both played to perfection by Lee Marvin) brighten a way-out western about a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) who trades readin' and writin' for a catch-up course in train robbery...
Back to Beginnings. It takes a heap o' writin' to use that sort of material in this day and age on anything more pretentious than a TV show, but 71 -year-old Conrad Richter has been making quiet, honest novels out of it for 25 years. The Town, part of his trilogy on frontier life in the Ohio territory (The Trees, The Fields, The Town), won a Pulitzer Prize...
...slice the team would love to touch is Broadway, but Stoller (who writes most of the music) complains that "nobody has offered us a decent book." In the meantime, Jerry and Mike go on helping the kids to identify. "Who's always writin' on the wall?/ Who's always goofin' in the hall?/ Who's always throwin' spitball?" Why, Charlie Brown, of course. Says Leiber: "If Cole Porter were starting out today, he'd have a tough time...
...take long for the citizens of Little Bay Side, L.I. to like the husky new schoolmaster who came to them one day in the 1830s. It was true, as one pupil later recalled, that young Walt Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...
...second and last company smoker, tentatively slated for Thursday, December 23, should produce another evening of robust entertainment. . .among the repeaters from the first smoker will be G.L.Mason--of the tune-writin' Masons--Hershberg and company, and, of course, the inimitable Lagerquist. . .Lagie is expected to unspin, uhreel, unwind, bring forth with another of those tall, highly colorful, highly humorous yarns, tales, anecdotes, whoppers, whew...