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Murray Burns (Jason Robards Jr.) has quit his job as writer for a children's TV show called Chuckles the Chipmunk ("When Sandburg and Faulkner left, I left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this...
...crust of daffiness. Like most plays about nonconformity. Clowns fudges its theme by leaving its hero where it should find him, with a job, a girl and responsibilities. The play is very New Yorky in tone, but its high good humor knows no geography. In a uniformly superb cast, Jason Robards Jr., previously starred in somber roles, emerges as the new clown prince of Broadway...
...television scriptwriter, creator of Chuckles Chipmunk, who quit his job because he found himself talking kideroonie talk. Murray, who will not be forced into the patterns of artificial idiocy, is also the guardian of Nick Burns, a precocious bastard of twelve. And most important, Murray is Jason Robards...
...Doctors Gather. Medical Director Jason K. Moyer called in all ten of the pediatricians, headed by Dr. John H. Ford Jr., who serve the hospital. They knew that salt poisoning can be deadly, especially to babies. But their medical library contained only one good account of its dangers, published in 1960 by two Baltimore researchers. The Binghamton doctors were faced with the first case of mass salt poisoning in U.S. hospital annals. They summoned one of the Baltimore team, Dr. Laurence Finberg of Johns Hopkins, and began their own frantic efforts to save the poisoned babies...
Tender Is the Night. Jason Robards Jr. portrays the triple-distilled spirit of the '20s in F. Scott Fitzgerald's story about a psychiatrist who lies down on the couch with his favorite patient...