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...Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory's, and naughty dancing girls at lesser saloons, Stover came delightfully alive...
Although almost all of Hiss' views have been printed at length in Alistair Cooke's A Generation on Trial, he does expound his lawyers' amazing thesis about the now-famous Woodstock typewriter Number 230099. Hiss devotes considerable space to discussing this typewriter, introduced at both trials by Hiss' lawyers as the machine on which the "Baltimore Documents," a series of sections from State Department papers, were typed. Chambers said that Hiss' wife had typed the documents on that machine, and that Hiss had given the papers to him. Hiss denied this, and this led to one of the perjury counts...
Others turned Norman's suicide into an anti-U.S. romp. Tory Leader John Diefenbaker attributed Norman's death to "witch-hunting proclivities of certain congressional inquisitors," and the CCF's Alistair Stewart cried that Norman had been "murdered by slander." Editorials in general were bitter...
...fell to balding, bushy-browed Bob Saudek, 45, who promptly formed a new packaging firm-Robert Saudek Associates, Inc.-to keep Omnibus on the TV air. Best "guarantee" now, says Saudek, is "the funded know-how of my creative staff," which will include such Omnibus regulars as Cultural Headwaiter Alistair Cooke, Drama Critic Walter Kerr. But the question remains: Can Omnibus maintain the courage of past conceits, the venturesomeness of past successes, the educational luxury of such occasional failures as its go-minute The Iliad, without special subsidy? The signs are encouraging: both current sponsors (Union Carbide and Carbon Corp...
...Vane-Trumpington, many writers cannot be kept from rope ladders; they love to swarm up the icy cliffs of fiction, creep up on reality in their rope-soled shoes and knock it out of commission with those knuckle-dusters. In the van of these shock troops is British Novelist Alistair MacLean, who in H.M.S. Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956) showed his ability to zero in with a battery of heavy cliches, fieldstrip and assemble a character in the dark, and tell an exciting story. MacLean displays the same talents in his current operation, dealing with the eastern Mediterranean...