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Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Faulkner's short story, Smoke, adapted by Gore Vidal...
...rest of the film's pedigree matches its cast. With script by Faulkner from Hemingway's novel and Hawkes as director, there are so many clever lines that even bit players have good roles. This is the "if-you-want-me-just-whistle" and the "Hong Kong Blues" film. It has Bacall at the height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that...
...Oxford, Miss., Mrs. Estelle Faulkner, wife of Novelist William (Sanctuary) Faulkner, disclosed that her husband gave away his 1950 Nobel Prize money. The writer, who is currently in Egypt working on a Warner Bros. CinemaScope movie, Land of the Pharaohs, put the $30,000 into a trust fund to be spent for scholarships and other good works...
...partakes of all that is finest in American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner, the sense of social forces of Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Steinbeck, and the linguistic facility of Thurber and Perelman. Add to this the satiric ability of George Orwell...
Joseph E. Bacigalupo '55 died in Faulkner Hospital yesterday of a self-inflicted bullet wound in the right temple...