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Dean Jagprer’s superb performance as an aging pilot who brings his plane in safely in a last-minute crisis on Playhouse of Stars was a real spine-tingler. Pilot roles are lucky for Jagger. Remember how unforgettable he was in the movie, “12 O’clock High,” with Gregory Peck? . . . Video Theater had a genuine shocker in “Desperate Glory,” a drama about juvenile perfidy behind the Iron Curtain. It was strong stuff. Some of it sick¬ ened me just a little but it also fas¬ cinated me, too . . . “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” ran up against too many technical difficulties on TV and never came off. I thought Michael Rennie, an actor I like a great deal, was all wrong for the dual role, and his serious passages always kept teetering on the brink of comedy. t; a Even when the stunts on People Are Funny aren’t up to par. Art Linkletter always gives me my mon¬ ey’s worth. I don’t think there’s a bet¬ ter all-around em¬ cee in the busi¬ ness these days . . . Sir Cedric Hard- wicke speaking: “I can’t act. I have never acted. I shall never act. What I can do is suspend the audience’s power of judgment.” Wha’ dat mean, daddy? . . . 20th Century-Fox is shooting a 45-minute television version of “The Ox-Bow Incident” Art Linkletter for G.E. Theater this fall. That was one of the best movies the studio ever turned out, it made all the Ten Best lists in 1943 and con¬ tinues to find a place of honor in most of the screen anthologies, and yet the picture lost money. But then it took a flock of re-issues in recent years for the great Victor McLag- len masterpiece, “The Informer,” to get back its investment. On the orig¬ inal runs, this one died at the box- office, too . . . Did you ever see a more uncomfortable introduction on TV in your life than the one poor “Miss Universe” got on that recent Va- riety Hour? The Swedish beauty looked as if she would have been much happier anywhere else and I never saw such a sigh of relief at an exit. You know something, I’ve missed George Gobel this summer. Those Saturday night sessions of his al¬ ways made my week-ends and I can’t wait for him to get back . . . Judy Garland will get $100,000 for that Spectacular she’s doing in the fall. I for one think she’ll be worth every cent of it. I’m sure a lot of people will violently disagree with me but in my book Miss Garland’s performance in the picture, “A Star Is Born,” was the finest musical tour de force I’ve seen in nearly 30 years of movie-covering . . . Those Whiting Girls has been improving right along and I have a feeling it’s going to more than make the grade. A-2 TV GUIDE