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...critic-gossipist in Hearst's New York Journal-American and 250 other U.S. papers, pudgy Jack O'Brian, 43, writes a daily column that is lively, readable, and regularly a thorn in all sides of the TV industry. Last week, violating one of show business' most sacred taboos, NBC's Comedian Steve Allen took a deep breath and told Critic O'Brian off. He filled six columns of Manhattan's Greenwich Village weekly Village Voice in lambasting O'Brian as "the only TV critic in the nation who is rude, inaccurate, unchristian...
...FEAST OF LUPERCAL, by Brian Moore. A book which proves that Novelist Moore's excellent first, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1956) was no accident. Malice, spite, envy and sexual frustration at a boys' school in Ireland add up to ignorance triumphant-and pathos on every page...
...flying machine, a mosquito is not efficient, but since its weight is low it gets 450 million miles per gallon of nectar, which it uses as fuel. In the Scientific Monthly, Professor Brian Hocking of the University of Alberta tells about his experiments with the flight of insects. He puts his subjects on a "flight mill": a delicate arm that turns round and round, propelled by a buzzing insect cemented to its tip. A photoelectric cell counts the revolutions, and from its records the insect's speed, power and mileage can be computed...
Carped the New York Journal-American's Jack O'Brian: "Crosby seemed to smile as if in constant pain. Closeups presented his face with a seemingly endless mouth and large lips which seemed to be pulled vertically apart as if with unseen strings." The Daily News's mild Ben Gross proposed that John "do something to control his twitching." The San Francisco Chronicle's Terrence O'Flaherty found him "nervous as an unprepared high-school valedictorian." And Variety spelled it out: "He forgot entire sentences and cues. He's far too deadpan...
Only one unknown, Brian Moore, is in the list...