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Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "The Lincoln Murder Case" follows the argument set out by Theodore Roscoe in his book The Web of Conspiracy, which put the finger on War Secretary Edwin M. Stanton as a master plotter who hired John Wilkes Booth to assassinate the President...
...grew up in an orphanage, where his father, an oilfield roustabout, had put him when his mother died. Never bothering with formal education, he learned electronics in the Navy during World War II and from correspondence courses. To expand his electrical contracting business, he even peddled stock from a booth at the 1956 Texas State Fair because investment bankers would not touch it. Stock that he sold at $3 a share is worth $29.25 today...
...gave it right back. Old Joe has a lot of old-fashioned slang phrases, so Jackie told him: 'You ought to write a series of grandfather stories for children, like "The Duck with Moxie," and "The Donkey Who Couldn't Fight His Way Out of a Telephone Booth...
...high school physics course, the new biology program written last summer by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the new math teaching developed at the University of Illinois (TIME, July 25). The school has seven science labs, a greenhouse, an animal house and a 30-booth language lab. Since Brown believes that the "college-bound student should be able to handle four years each of two languages," the school teaches Latin, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and now Chinese. Says Brown: "The secret is to make the curriculum as exciting as possible, and just as exciting for the slow...
...lifelong bachelor and semi-recluse who at his death at 76 was dodging attention by living under the name of "Mr. Booth," Turner did have his warmhearted moments. Aside from painting, his greatest ambition was to found a home for "decayed English artists (Landscape Painters only) and single men." And at one exhibition when the high colors of one of his paintings overshadowed those in two nearby Lawrence portraits, Turner tactfully smudged his own canvas with lampblack-which he washed off after the show...