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...strange case of Robert Stroud has been fashioned into an absorbing film that is deceptively calm and emotionally powerful. Burt Lancaster plays the bird man with a firm restraint that never conceals a deep-felt conviction that Stroud should not be in stir at all. Inevitably, this is Stroud's side of the case, as originally unearthed by Social Worker Thomas E. Gaddis in his 1955 book, Bird Man of Alcatraz. Fact is, Stroud, offscreen. was a stiff-necked, arrogant, impenitent man and at least initially a homicidal threat to society. Like Caryl Chessman, he had just enough brilliance...
This weekend the players in the experimental theater will present "End Game," directed by Burt Melnick. Branson intends to use "End Game" to show the capabilities of the Experimental Theater...
Frank Knox memorial fellowships, providing a year of study in one of the nations of the British Commonwealth, have been awarded to eight seniors: Keith H. Basso, Joseph L. Featherstone, Mitchell H. Gall, Burt P. Johnson Jr., Robert J. Klein, Norton D. Lang, Peter W. Stanley, and Curtis D. McFarland. Students are selected for the awards, established in honor of Frank Knox '42, on the basis of academic and extra-curricular achievements...
...also stayed up all night. A friend called from Hollywood to say he would call her again if she won. Two and a half hours went by. "Someone else got the award, and no one has the courage to call me," wailed Sophia, lighting up another carton. In Hollywood. Burt Lancaster had just come forward to read off the names of the nominees for best actress. He got so carried away on his ministerial tones that he almost left Sophia out altogether. But her name was where it counted-in the winner's envelope...
...This Very Moment (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Special, with Burt Lancaster, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Darin, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Greer Garson, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Bob Hope, Lena Home, the Kingston Trio, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Jack Paar, Jane Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas and Joanne Woodward, benefiting the American Cancer Society...