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...best-plotted intricacies of TV's mystery shelf. His worst enemy is no crook but District Attorney Hamilton Berger (William Talman), whose batting average against Mason's brilliant courtroom tactics is .000. His closest pals are a private detective (William Hopper) and an even more private secretary (Barbara Hale), whom Mason keeps late at the office and takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even he is not above breaking the law (e.g., unlawful entry) in a client's interest. Lawyer Mason draws the line at committing...
...altitudes. This time was for keeps; the flight would be measured officially both by the instrument package in the plane and by radar and theodolite cameras tracking it from the ground. Screaming down the runway, the Starfighter lifted off at 9:40 a.m.; Johnson headed westward toward Santa Barbara, climbing steeply. At 35,000 ft. he kicked in his afterburner, turned east, still climbing. He leveled off at 45,000 ft., poured straight ahead at about 1,000 m.p.h. As he reached the instrumented altitude-measuring range at Edwards Air Force Base, he pushed the Starfighter to full throttle...
Died. Norman Bel Geddes, 65, stage and industrial designer, father of Actress Barbara Bel Geddes; of a heart attack, while lunching at Manhattan's University Club. Irrepressibly creative Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from ashtrays to sets for the Metropolitan Opera, refrigerators, radios, root-beer bottles, magazine layouts, furniture, downtown Toledo, motor cars, gasoline stations, the interiors of Pan American Airways' China Clippers, Fifth Avenue store windows, a tent without poles for the Ringling Bros, circus. Designer of more than 50 theatrical productions (Ziegfeld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Fifty Million Frenchmen), he was also one of the first...
Studio One in Hollywood: Straight off an unpretentious cuff, The Desperate Age probed an oft-hacked situation, offered an unhackneyed dramatization. The problem: Does a 28-year-old girl (Barbara Bel Geddes) continue her hapless romance with a married office chum (Wendell Corey) and ruin her chances for a normal life, or does she destroy her present happiness for an acceptable future emptiness? "I'll never love anyone as much," she says. "Maybe you can learn to," pleads her mother (Aline MacMahon). Retorts her daughter: "Maybe I'll have to learn to. That's what you mean...
...Funny that not too many people have arrived yet. Oh, there's Bill and Barbara. You know them...