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Show . ONCE OVER We Live in an Age of Wonder -By H. I. Phillips ' THIS is a bad year for skeptics. Doubting Thomas is an also-ran. The Non-Believers and You-Gotta-Show-Me boys don't figure. It is a bold fellow who dares to say, "A thing like that couldn't happen," "It just doesn't make sense," or "I'm not fool enough to swallow that." Nobody is farther out on a limb than a man who says "There are certain things that simply can't be done." When you can sit in your living room on the tip of Cape Cod and see and hear an orator, a convention, con-vention, a clambake, a three-ring circus, a fish fry or a peace confer- u r"olifirnin .it's Harry Truman may go down in history not so much as a President, but as the first man to appear in a transcontinental video performance. (Acheson really beat him by a head ... his head came through pretty good too . . . but it was just a flash.) It was Harry who will go down through the annals of time among the "firsts." One hundred years from now people may look for him in vain among the Jacksons, CleVelands, Roosevelts, Jolsons, Watsons and first flivvers and find him listed among the Barnums, the Baileys, the Hammersteins and whoever first ate a banana under CUCtt till me fjciai. jx vu.-w. , - time to stop being incredulous. Boy and man, we have been in on many wonders. We have done our share of blinking in amazement. We can remember when autos frightened fright-ened horses, when telephones worked with cranks, when movies were silent, when watches had to be wound and when the idea of a talking picture seemed far fetched. We have lived in the amazing era of the clutchless car, the talking movie, the guided rocket, the atomic sub, the radio, the electric dishwasher, dish-washer, the canned egg, the plastic shirt, the glass fishing rod and the i.,T.-nnnrci dinner made of fibres, water in a glass tank. "TRUMAN, Harry S. An early American whose voice, face and gestures first made the journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast through a device known as video, which was considered con-sidered quite remarkable at the time. He was five foot ten inches tall, weighed 167 pounds, wore a dark suit and a plain tie and came through without interference interfer-ence from Stop The Music." Of course, following Harry the show really went to town in video fashion, many of the principals obviously ob-viously fully conscious of video pos- but video from coast to coast has definitely destroyed our resistance to the incredible. When Luke Plunkett, in a hillside hill-side shack in Ipswich, Mass., can turn a lever and find himself him-self in the twinkling of an eye attending a global hassel in Frisco, an Elks chowder party in Los Angeles, a ball game in Carson City, a horse race at Santa Anita or a four-alarm fire In Seattle it is time to admit anything can happen and never scoff at miracles. sibilties and determined to give show business something new. There were times when we expected some of the guests to come on with a trained dog, Indian clubs or trick bicycles. And toward the end of the week we rather longed for a speech by Faye Emerson or Maggi Mc-Nellis. Mc-Nellis. Washington has named a board to probe gambling in all sports, including in-cluding racing. The East and Westbound West-bound probers down there are now colliding with the North and Southbound South-bound investigators. |
