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...TV Reader's Digest (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is a good series or a dismal one, depending on which of its first two shows are considered. The opener, called The Last of the Old-Time Shooting Sheriffs, was a witty debunking of the classic western with its quick-drawing, deadshot badmen and goodmen. The veteran sheriff of the title, played with creaking excellence by Russ Simpson, was a gun slinger who preferred a donkey to a spirited stallion, avoided trouble when he could, and in a gun battle, always got his man by holding onto his revolver with...
Next week, while Bert Parks is on vacation, Cullen will fill in for him on ABC-TV's Break the Bank. A week later he will start on the CBS-Radio version of Stop the Music. Next month, when Place the Face leaves the air, he will move to a new M.C. job on CBS-TV's Name That Tune. He has a filmed TV question-and-answer show called Professor Yes 'n' No that is seen in 30 cities, and coming up this fall is another radio show with Arlene Francis...
President Eisenhower (Mon. 9:30 p.m., ABC & ABC-TV; 10:30, NBC and CBS Radio). "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof," speaking at Columbia University's Bicentennial Dinner...
Tallulah Bankhead last week made most TV screens seem far too small. On the U.S. Steel Show (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV), starring in a production of Hedda Gabler, Tallulah turned Ibsen's devious, subtly evil heroine into a flamboyant, shouting hussy. It was like a lioness playing Puss in Boots. To TV audiences educated to the quiet underplaying of such shows as Dragnet, watching Actress Bankhead was a startling experience...
Peter Potter Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV) requires a group of pop-music experts, e.g., Johnnie Ray, Jack Haley, Harry James, to estimate the hit potentials of new records. The proceedings are dominated by Disk Jockey Peter Potter, whose special brand of sugary archness is sometimes topped by the coy commercials for Hazel Bishop lipstick...