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...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Music of Romance, dramatized episodes from Tchaikovsky's life, with Helen Hayes as his patroness, Mme. Von Meek, playing opposite Farley Granger as the composer. Color...
...these words the worm suddenly turns; the red ink in the bookkeeper's veins begins to boil; he develops a double-entry personality; he decides to erase this intolerable female, rub out this erroneous entry in the tidy ledger of his life. And the scene in which the meek little monster attempts to execute his resolve-with the help of cigarettes, whisky, open windows, kitchen knives and even an egg whisk-is a grand piece of sustained nonsense...
...HIDING PLACE, by Robert Shaw (254 pp.; World; $3.50), concerns two British airmen who parachute over Bonn from a burning Lancaster during the closing months of World War II. A meek, wispy druggist's clerk takes them into his house, feeds them, and misdirects a Gestapo search party. The flyers congratulate themselves on their luck and hide out for a week in the clerk's wine cellar. But one morning when they awaken, they are chained and handcuffed...
Said one member of the U.S. delegation: "You know, you sweat like hell, cable like hell, lobby like crazy in the corridors-and then it's finally all over and it doesn't mean a thing. This resolution was so meek it wouldn't have scared Louisa May Alcott. By abstaining we pleased the Arab bloc, and at the same time we didn't get De Gaulle sore. We just hope to God he starts negotiating with Algeria...
...American wine that drives its own product off the U.S. market--plots to make war on America, lose, and, as is customary with vanquished U.S. foes, be economically rehabilitated. The triad of hereditary rulers who run Grand Fenwick--creaking and Victorianesque Grand Duchess Glorianna, imperious Prime Minister Montjoy, and meek but good Tully Bascomb, a combination game warden and defense minister--are all played skillfully by Peter Sellers...