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Wrangler (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new adventure series about a Western wan derer who, in the opening saga, rakes in a gambling pot that includes an Indian maid...
Completing his freshman year at Oxford, Auberon Waugrt, 20-year-old son of Author Evelyn Waugh, established himself an heir to his father's literary precocity by announcing that his first novel will be published in September. Theme: "Terrible mother-son hatred." Title: The Foxglove Saga. "I didn't want to call it something disgustingly contemporary like Rushing Nowhere or Rotten...
...novel's end, with his nerve ends jumping like a field of grasshoppers, Blaydon flees home to England, to await the next volume of his saga. In parting from his friend-enemy, Groarke, Blaydon says accusingly: "You are Ireland, the same the English have been running their heads into for the past fifteen hundred years." Groarke answers: "No. I'm not like Ireland, I'm like life...
That important and frankly materialist hope shaped an era. The Lewis Eliot saga, for all its limitations, reflects the triumphs of the era, as well as its dangers and its crises of the soul...
Russian newspapers, whose pages of grey type and grey dogma are relieved only by static photographs of stodgy Politburocrats, last week broke out with a real human-interest story and gave it the works. The story they had to tell, already familiar to U.S. newspaper readers, was the saga of four young Russian navymen who had drifted for 49 days across the Pacific in a 60-ft. landing craft, until rescued 1,200 miles north of Wake Island by the U.S. aircraft carrier Kearsarge. In the Soviet telling, the U.S. came off well...