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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A family of private eyes-father (Robert Young), son (David Wayne) and holy terrors (Barbara Hershey and Brooke Bundy)-in pursuit of a jewel thief...
...said Ford, is "to join the war on poverty. The free-enterprise system will not gain the acceptance it needs until all men share in the abundance that system provides." One night after Henry spoke, he shared some of his own abundance with an unworthy citizen-the thief who foot-padded into his Manhattan apartment and disappeared with $50,000 worth of his wife Christina's jewels...
Handyman & Thief. Gennaro is coffinmaker, wreathmaker, funeral-insurance salesman, handyman, business manager, and hearse driver. He is also poor, and in Naples that means powerless. Caught without a chauffeur's license, he is slapped with a staggering fine and forbidden to drive. In debt for tobacco, rent, and worst of all, for coffin lumber, he limps through one hand-mangling day heaving shovelfuls of earth for a huge industrial corporation-and gets fired for incompetence. Employed in a sizzling restaurant kitchen, he is falsely accused of theft, gets fired again...
Only his undertaking business guarantees Gennaro a measure of self-respect. To save it, he turns into a thief and hijacks the contents of a warehouse, but is interrogated and tortured by the police. At last the business collapses; dying old man and desperate young boy are turned out of their tumble-down tenement; Gennaro is stripped of everything-except his roaring Neapolitan zest for life...
...aborigines had invented neither the wheel nor the plow, nor had they imagined the whip. The same reproach had been felt before. The Tahitians had burst into tears when Cook had a thief flogged on the rigging of his ship. All these things have been written of before -Australia's natural history, Pacific exploration, and colonization. It is Moorehead's peculiar talent to keep the land, the natives and the newcomers in mind at the same time, so that what may have been regarded as mere event takes on the aspect of a moral drama. Historical journalism here...