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Though Mama sometimes looks at the ruder aspects of life, it still sees them through a romantic haze. Things seldom go absolutely right; they never go irrevocably wrong. For most of Mama's big, fond audience, the family favorite is pig-tailed Dagmar, caught at just the right note of sentiment and practicality by nine-year-old Robin Morgan. In theory, each Mama episode takes up a different member of the family; in practice, Robin often steals the show. Producer Carol Irwin observes with awe that radio-trained Robin has somehow developed a "wonderful sense of timing...
...lower level, September Affair has been turned out with as much skill as Brief Encounter. The plot meshes smoothly, the dialogue is suavely written and spoken, the score puts Kurt Weill's lovely September Song to good sentimental use, and a soft haze of glamor rises from lavish interiors and antiseptically romantic Italian vistas. The effect is as shimmeringly pretty as a soap bubble, and just as hollow...
...teams to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there after they...
...Yalu River, last week there were two dogfights in one day. In the first, six MIGs tangled with four F-86s. The Sabre pilots shot down one enemy plane and counted as a "probable" a MIG that rolled on to its back and vanished into a ground haze...
...Angeles jazz fans, eager for more of the blast and blare of Memphis Blues and Black and Blue, peered through the haze of a nightclub called Tiffany's one night last week at a sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts...