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...Tender Grass (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Repeat of a Passover drama by the late Morton Wishengrad, with Marian Seldes, Sam Wanamaker and Martin Brooks...
...evidence obtained from an electronic computer by the Scottish Rev. Andrew Morton [March 15] as to the undoubted Pauline authorship of four New Testament Epistles confirms the findings of the higher critics of the 19th century. Basing their judgment not only on literary style but on various other clues as well, they picked the same four Epistles as the only genuine ones in the 14 attributed to the Apostle Paul...
Died. Lizzie Miles (real name: Elizabeth Landreaux Pajaud), 68, one of the last of the great Negro blues shouters. a laughing, mountainous, born-and-bred Bourbon Streeter who belted them out for the jazz bands of Kid Ory, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
...Morton believes his discovery to be a hard blow against all kinds of Fundamentalists, who take the Bible literally. "This is one in the eye for all the Bible thumpers," he says. But he argues that his study "in no way detracts from the Epistles' value as church scripture," since the churches have always accepted them, regardless of authorship, as accurate reflections of Pauline teaching...
Others on the disk, however, sound too much, like politicians trying too hard to be funny. Sen. Barry Goldwater. Sen. Kenneth Keating, and Sen. Thurston B. Morton struggle valiantly to achieve the gentle touch, without much success...