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JACQUELINE BERNSTEIN...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Leonard Bernstein explores musical comedy...
...most enduring was the late Aline Bernstein, a theatrical designer with a son Wolfe's age, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. The present volume contains none of Wolfe's personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself. But there are enough letters to other women to indicate the line of Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed...
...writer's need to draw lis fictional people from experience. But when Perkins read the manuscript of No More Rivers, he too was outraged to find himself and his Scribner associates pilloried in Wolfe's savage prose. And Wolfe's own turn had come when Aline Bernstein, in Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love affair. Sounding exactly like one of his own victims, Tom wrote her a note complaining that the book would "get pawed over and whispered about by wretched, verminous little people who want to poke around, pick out identities and gloat...
...version of Omnibus, the best of the highbrow shows, which moved over from CBS. Programs include a re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg as directed by Delbert (Marty) Mann and a look at the history of U.S. musical comedy through the eyes, ears and expressive hands of Leonard Bernstein. Disneyland will document "The Great Cat Family" with an all-animated cartoon, make a study of the atom and recount man's efforts to fly. Disney will also launch a TV spectacular called Johnny Tremain, about "events leading up to the American Revolution." Afternoon Film Festival and Famous Film...