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...other neighborhood immortals as Duddy Duddelson, Crazy Guggenham, and Fatso Fogarty), remembers Jackie as "a big hero in the neighborhood-because of the pool, and also because he was so funny. He had a slouchy mannerism, a duck-waddling walk." Gleason's mother worked in a subway change booth and had small regard for her son's comic talents, and when Jackie brought down the house with his clowning in the P.S. 73 eighth-grade graduation play, he shouted at her from the stage: "I told you. Mom! I told you!" His formal education ceased at that level...
...hero successively changes his name, testifies in a trial as an eyewitness to events he never saw, and later, on seduction bent, "enters" a girl's life by pretending he knew her dead brother. In the telling, everything is hemstitched with the heaviest of literary embroidery. (A telephone booth is "a slim, body-width oratory . . . a temple of self-abuse, saving synagogue of the air.") Once in a while there are a few glints of true gold. ("What we do not do persists, classic and perfect, beneath what we do. The final admixture is the judgment.") But the total...
...fallout shelter. Still . . ." The third girl, Barbara Walz, an oil company receptionist, had a specific concern: "It's the children who give me the most worry. With my husband in one place and me in another, and the children at school, we really have no control." Marion Booth, office manager for a public relations firm, has no children. "But," she said, "I have to think about my husband and mother. We have a good basement in our house, and I'm thinking of fixing it up as a shelter...
...three-dimensional clichés with names like Widow Ruskin and Cousin Martin, played by actors steeped in basic quaintsmanship. From ABC's Margie (1920s flapper) to CBS's Father of the Bride, the other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught in an NBC series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears of her boss's clients. The Joey Bishop Show (NBC) presents its deadpan comic star as a small-time flack...
...annual Congress, held this August at the University of Wisconsin, indicates that students have, for some reason, become news copy. To anyone familiar with the usual A.P. or U.P. dispatches dealing with undergraduate activity ("A record number of students at the University of Iowa were crammed into a phone booth this afternoon. . . ."), a press that casts a serious eye on the students is a minor miracle...