Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another noise drowned in the landslide's rumble: two-time Democratic Governor Albert Benjamin Chandler, 61, sometime U.S. Senator and unlamented baseball high commissioner (1945-51). Barred by law from succeeding himself as Governor, "Happy" Chandler tried in the May primary to win the nomination for a hand-picked successor. He failed against a Combs campaign expertly engineered by ex-Senator (1950-56) Earle C. Clements, 63, bitter factional foe of Chandler for a quarter-century (TIME, May 25). Only a Republican victory in the election could have restored Democrat Chandler's slipping grip on state political power...
...over Mickey Spillane's sleuthing satyrs, consider him a sissy. But the TV Eye often has more taste than his critics. At his best, he is a healthy step backward toward the hardboiled heroes who swaggered onto the American scene in the novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler...
...proper predecessors, they succeeded and survived because they were tough, not because they were notably intelligent. Things happened to them: they faced pistols, boredom, and bad stomachs from too many foul meals eaten on the run. Hammett's Sam Spade soon found an acceptable running mate in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe who would tell the girls: "The first time we met, I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it." At his best, the TV Private Eye operates in that tradition...
Philip Carey, 34, has a hard-eyed face and a big (6 ft. 4 in., 207 lbs. ) frame that lend Philip Marlowe the look of a man who has been around. These days Raymond Chandler's Eye seldom travels from L.A., but like his original, Carey maintains the air of an adventurer, a man who might take one drink too many and wind up m Singapore with a full beard. Up from Hackensack, N.J., with stopovers as a Wall Street runner and a Jones Beach lifeguard, Carey has long been an admirer of Chandler's books, is openly...
Philip Marlowe (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Writer Raymond Chandler's durable private eye seems tough enough to survive even the indignities of television. Smoothly done a la Peter Gunn, far-out jazz...