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DARWIN AND THE BEAGLE by Alan Moorehead. Illustrated. 280 pages. Harper...
...brilliant, self-taught naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when...
WILD, WILD WEST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Agnes Moorehead plays Emma Valentine, a socialite who seems to be involved in murdering some of the West's wealthiest men. Repeat of the show that won her a 1967 Emmy Award...
BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). When Endora (Agnes Moorehead) gives a Halloween party, wild doings are the order of the evening in "Twitch or Treat." Paul Lynde and Baseball's Willie Mays turn up among her guests...
...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Historian Moorehead skillfully constructs a new version of the fall of man as he shows how the European Enlightenment brought disastrous changes in the primitive societies of the Pacific...