Word: firmly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...would have stood out at any time as the first of a new series-The Robert Herridge Theater-that has long been one of the finest unseen programs ever assembled. Producer Hf-ridge began it over a year ago at CBS Films, a semi-independent TV packaging firm, but as show after show went on tape, the series looked so widely various that potential customers felt they did not know what they might be buying. In ten months, many agencies and sponsors smelled quality and kept their...
...Submarines. When he thought he was being ignored, Rod complained to Congressmen. Says he: "All other things being equal, the average military procurement office would rather give a contract to a big firm because he thinks it is safer and he takes less personal risk. If the contract doesn't work out he always has the excuse that the big firm is well known and well established and should have performed better...
...outset is devoted to establishing the fact that the hero's parents are rich but plenty neurotic. It is a poor parlor psychologist who cannot deduce from this that Alfred, in an effort to outdo his father, will marry money (Joanne Woodward), win a position in a banking firm by saving its owner's grandson from drowning, devote himself single-mindedly to his career while his wife buckets around with the Long Island mental-cruelty set, and finally be saved from dissolution by the love of a good woman (Ina Balin...
Durrell says that writing poetry takes too much out of him, and so it might. In a time when most poets settle for expert technique as an envelope for cliches of feeling, his technical expertness serves simply as a firm mold for flashing pools of moving truth. While reams of well-wrought verse make do with themes that could as easily serve historians, sociologists, geologists or psychoanalysts, he seldom tackles anything less easy than a challenge to poetic insight. Like all poets he has his quota of failures, but even there his sense of language, when it cannot save...
Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Rerun of Calculated Risk, starring John Cassavetes and E. G. Marshall. A pair of federal tax agents find their investigation of a business firm complicated by its devious president (Conrad Nagel), a chief executive (Warner Anderson) and his pretty daughter (Mona Freeman...