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...hilarious, howlingly off-key story of a young English soldier held hostage in a Dublin brothel, is an irreverent stage piece that is thoroughly good fun. The World of Carl Sandburg, an evening of the poet's work more or less acted out by Bette Davis and Leif Erickson, comes off as an agreeable recital, evoking a poet's world that i dramatically mild and a little ostentatiously benign. And at the Phoenix, Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore sails briskly along in the capable hands of its right good captain, Tyrone Guthrie...
...Norman Corwin has adapted it for the stage and Bette Davis and Leif Erickson act it out, Sandburg's world remains dramatically mild, a little ostentatiously benign, its warm iron-kettle juices mingling the flavor of sage and ham. At its best, an evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails...
...Corporation decides to give out degrees only to Democrats. "We want to even the series," explains one members, "but since the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, all our awards are posthumous." Other awards go to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Richard III, and Leif Erickson, true discoverer of the continent...
...Response. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Frank Erickson was fined $300 after chasing a woman driver with an exhaust whistle on his car going full blast, frightening her so badly she drove her car into a river...
...only by plopping the show into a favorable time (Mon., 8-8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), and selling it to an advertiser (Noxzema) that had long been panting in the wings for such a time spot. Says onetime (1953-55) NBC President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, now chairman of McCann-Erickson International: "The networks today have abdicated to the Hollywood studios and to M.C.A." Adds McCann-Erickson's TV Boss C. Terence Clyne: "The networks are not creators or producers; they are editors and purchasers. More than 90% of TV investment is spent on the product of someone else...