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...testing him for the part of John F. Kennedy in PT 109, and Producer Ross Hunter has signed him to a seven year contract. Their father is 56 and still busier than either of his offspring. Three more Henry Fonda films will soon be released (Advise and Consent, The Longest Day, How the West Was Won), and next week he opens on Broadway as the dying hero in A Gift of Time...
Small wonder. Much of the talk was about ABC executives' memos on scripts for The Untouchables ("We are killing too many people per episode"; "Not as much action as some, but sufficient to keep the average bloodthirsty viewer fairly happy"). Longest wrangle was over the famous episode of Bus Stop that featured a nymphomaniac and a teen-age alcoholic murderer, which 25 of ABC's affiliated stations refused to show...
...fireboats were spraying, and the French ambassador was waiting. Into New York harbor steamed the world's newest and longest ocean liner, France, her profile ennobled by huge ailerons protruding from two canted stacks.* On her maiden voyage, the France last week carried 1,600 French Line officials and paying customers, all of them grateful for a touch of dry land. The great ship had run into a storm that spoiled one day of the voyage as well as some dishes and dinners...
Although Balanchine has created 55 works for his City Ballet, and by his own count "made up enough steps to feed the world for 100 years.'' he had never before attempted a ballet as massive as the evening-long Midsummer Night's Dream. (His longest previous effort: The Nutcracker, which as a children's matinee attraction has become the most lucrative work in City Ballet's repertory.) Moreover, in turning to Shakespeare. Balanchine had violated one of his own favorite theories-that ballet should be pure dance and should not tell a story. But what...
...those who care, Guinness also reports that the longest sword that can be swallowed after a heavy meal measures 26 in. The most extensive case of coin swallowing was reported by Sedgefield General Hospital, County Durham, England, where a man was relieved of 366 halfpennies, 26 sixpences. 17 threepences, 11 pennies and four shillings (424 coins valued at about...