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...Prince's Life. Averell Harriman grew up to the pattern of his inheritance. He spent his summers at Arden, near Bear Mountain, where his father built a 100-room French Renaissance-style house on a 20,000-acre estate with a private railroad. The villages of Harriman and Arden were established near by just to supply the Harrimans. Below the main house were imposing stables, a polo field, a track for exercising trotting horses...
...crime shows, CBS's Wanted (Thurs. 10:30 p.m.) and The Lineup (Fri. 10 p.m.), follow the Dragnet pattern of sticking to fact, however stranger fiction may be. Wanted told the unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate...
...M.T.A. is a man-made world. Blasted from bedrock and pushed through Charles River mud, three tubes criss-cross beneath Boston's houses and streets in a frenzied, asymmetrical pattern, like a line drawing of a frantic dancer. Daily, subways and trolleys carry thousands of commuters into the city from the outer reaches of the metropolitan area...
...Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...
Boston Jazz Tunes begin with a theme, setting a chord pattern which underlies the melodic line. Then the soloists take off, basing their improvisations on this pattern while piano, drums and bass create the rhythmic tension...