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...survivor that continues to race along in a well-worn rut is Dragnet (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb's face is still stony, his voice still flat and he still says, "My name's Friday. I'm a cop." Last week he was after a confidence man (and caught him, of course, within the prescribed 26^ minutes). The story, like all Dragnet stories, was authentic. It proved that authenticity is something that a discriminating storyteller can overwork...
...curriculum is predicated on the theory that every individual has potentialities, which when encouraged and developed, spell success." Although this thought may sound a trifle well-worn at first glance, we notice the clever variation of tone within the sentence: the intellectual sound of "predicated" coupled with the homily of "spell success...
...work has been trying. At 65, Casey's temper has become frayed. He began the year by drop-kicking a press photographer out of spring training; during the regular season, he raged at the umpires more than usual, erupted from the dugout in a uniform that looked like well-worn pajamas, and even got himself heaved out of a game-something of a record for Stengel as a Yankee manager...
...Virgin Queen (20th Century-Fox) straight from Hollywood's well-worn looms, is a plush, wall-to-wall tapestry depicting the rugged court life of late 16th century England. Chewing around the edges is Cinemactress Bette Davis who, according to the pressagents, was so taken with the script that she scurried out of retirement to play again the role of Queen Elizabeth (her first: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, with Errol Flynn...
...full of cigarette cartons and whiskey bottles that you've been seeing pictures of. This man is old and fat and bumbling, and does not look very assertive. His is not booming out hardy greetings, but is wistfully picking up his lost buttons and rubbing the soot off his well-worn suit...