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...probably this fact that makes Hal Holbrooks "Mark Twain Tonight" a particularly noteworthy show. Besides presenting Twain's genuine humor ("I'm all abstinence. . . so long as it doesn't do anyone any harm,") Holbrook doesn't hesitate to show the "darker" side of Twain, ranging from a discourse on why men really aren't the best animals in creation to more pointed and direct statements, such as humanity is a "basket of festering corruption. . . for the support and protection of microbes...
...part of their jobs as critics. They reach an impressive, if not impressionable, newspaper readership that rivals in number the legion of comic-strip fans. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby is syndicated in more than 90 papers, the Los Angeles Mirror-News''s Hal Humphrey in 87; in San Francisco...
...Andorra, whose main industry-smuggling -is frowned upon by France and Spain, had to fight their way through a snowstorm in leaving the Pyrenees, and nearly came to grief on the main street of Vaduz when their car almost collided with a herd of cows. The delegate representing the haL'-square-mile domain of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace was Monaco's commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino...
...earn a collective income of about $250 million a year), not out of swank bars and seedy clip joints. They spend more time at plant protection or gathering over-the-transom divorce evidence than avenging mink-clad corpses. TV Eyes, says San Francisco's crew-cut professional Eye, Hal Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone tap, the hidden recorder, the infrared camera, the fishhook microphone (which can be cast as lightly as a dry fly onto an upper-story windowsill). On TV, the Eyes shoot...
...Career (Hal Wallis; Paramount), the film version of James Lee's off-Broadway hit of 1957, tells the story of a stage-struck ex-soldier (Anthony Franciosa) from Lansing, Mich, who heads for Manhattan after World War II to become an actor. He imagines himself going from hit to hit, but unfortunately he staggers from cliche to cliche. For six months he lives in the inevitable cold-water flat with an orange crate for an icebox, and walks the streets from one tryout to another. Nothing doing. Then a talk-big, pay-small type Dean Martin) gives...