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...FORTUNE COOKIE. As a TV cameraman who is mildly clipped while covering a football game, Jack Lemmon follows the zany signals called by his grasping brother-in-law Walter Matthau, a two-bit shyster with dreams of becoming a big-time chiseler. Nicknamed "Whiplash Willie," the illegal eagle stops at almost nothing to clip an insurance company of $1,000,000 in this comely comedy directed by Billy Wilder...
...Right Questions. More instructive than the files, which he devours at a 1,000-words-a-minute clip, have been his skull sessions within the department. Applying the Socratic approach, which he learned as a law professor at Yale and the University of Chicago,' Katzenbach stirs up debate and, in the words of one participant, "asks the right questions and plenty of them...
...first five weeks after its publication, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (TIME, Sept. 30) sold more than 250,000 copies, began to appear on the bestseller lists, and is still going at a lively clip. At a time when the bestsellers tend to be largely composed of sexy stuff, this is indeed a phenomenal showing...
...most important intangible of all however, is the Dodgers' great performance under pressure. They triumphed in a brutal pennant fight (though they only played .500 ball over the final two weeks, the Orioles played at a .400 clip and have less momentum), and have won three of three World Series since leaving Brookiyn...
WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT W. C. FIELDS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Third in a series of film-clip profiles of outstanding 20th century comedians...