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...Snap Judgment...
...Steve Allen's Tonight program (NBC, Mon.-Fri. 11:30 p.m.1 a.m.). As the panel of "experts" postured diagnostically on the edge of their chairs, the first contestant signed in. His name: Steve Passanante. His pulse: 78. His blood pressure: normal. The panel failed in its first snap judgments (upset stomach, twisted esophagus), and time ran out before they could correctly identify the ailment (a sty). Lucky Contestant Passanante (played by Singer Steve Lawrence) won the full prize: two weeks' free hospitalization and "a year's supply of carbolated soap...
...hats, unchanged for years, have also been spruced up with new colors and styles, ranging from Tyrolean models to narrow snap-brims for the Ivy League Look. And men are buying hats again...
Gregory Peck, as the tough man's tough man, is by way of giving a nearly perfect performance. And his role is no snap. He must alternate between kindliness and deadliness, each with equal fervor, and yet without destroying the plausibility of either. Millard Mitchell, as a rugged marshal, is an old hand at being expert, as is bar-tender Karl Malden. Skip Homier and Richard Jeckel are the shot and kicked punks, and they seem to enjoy their work...
...vacuum cleaners, food freezers, storm windows, "have gypped . . . our public out of millions." For example, the decoy couples called a station about a sewing machine advertised at $26.50. They were visited by a sharper who confided that the machine was not very good; its needle was apt to snap under heavy strain and could not be replaced. Then he offered a $50 discount on a $189.50 model...