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...cast, without exception, is excellent Peggy Allenby, as Linda Loman, presents a subtly shaded characterization in a part that could have been no more than a mirror of the salesman's mind. As Willy's sons, Darren McGavin and Paul Langton become distinct individuals, each with some of their father's traits. Willy's brother Ben and his friend Charley are both finely-drawn by Royal Beal and Howard Smith...
...Angeles Mirror last week, Reader W. Roman Horning explained the heady lure of the letters-to-the-editor column. Wrote he: "I write to the editor to satisfy my ego and frustration when life is dull and the future looks dreary, when no one thinks or cares for the little man of an insignificant nature. When the editor is kind enough to put the little man's little say in the paper, it puts him up in the clouds of ecstasy...
...West Africans themselves were seldom shy about having their music recorded; they considered the playbacks "tremendous magic." Once, hearing his voice played back, a native insisted that Alberts had stolen his tongue. He regained his composure when Alberts held up a mirror...
...hurt the cell. It is also too feeble to make a useful impression on a fluorescent screen or photographic plate, so Barer focuses the invisible image, enlarged with a reflecting microscope to about three inches in diameter, on a screen. Then, by means of a rapidly revolving mirror, he "scans"' the image, throwing the ultraviolet light from a narrow slice of it into a photomultiplier tube. The faint glimmer of ultraviolet is thus changed into a fluctuating electric current that is powerful enough to form a bright curve on the face of a cathode-ray tube...
Protests crackled from coast to coast. A Washington Post reader denounced the "vicious" attempt to "blackmail parents into buying a product." The Washington Star editorially conceded that the ad "was in bad taste" and regretted its publication. Cried the Los Angeles Mirror's Columnist Hal Humphrey: "How neurotic...