Word: alcoa
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...budget despite polls that indicate a viewer decline in summer. Tentatively set for Thursday as NBC's biggest summer show is a new "low highbrow'' quiz called High Low with Charles Van Doren as a panelist. Continuing live in their oldtime slots: Twenty One, Steve Allen, Alcoa-Good-year, Lux Video Theater. Good Music-Making Perry Como gets a relaxed substitute in 27-year-old Julius La Rosa, who will pull a 13-week tour in color. Says NBC's Program Director Manie Sacks: "When you are perspiring, it's a lot easier to watch...
...Force. Defense Department's order will cut costs (average aircraft-factory worker earns $10.84 weekly overtime) but aggravate engineer shortage, now so acute that until recently California planemakers kept engineers on steady overtime. BIGGEST SHOPPING CENTER in southeast U.S. will be built in Miami for $15 million by Alcoa Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89, and other investors. With more than 4,000 parking spaces and 60 chain stores, new Northside Center expects yearly sales of $45 million. Construction starts this fall...
Secondari, who works as a newsman for a network that encourages commentators to editorialize, wrote his play for NBC's Alcoa Hour about a year ago. Producer Herbert Brodkin bought it, but NBC refused to put it on the air. NBC's candid explanation, as given last week by a spokesman: "In making it appear that sponsors or advertising agencies have any influence on network news shows, the script was simply untrue." The rights to the play then reverted to Secondari. When Producer Brodkin moved over to CBS's Studio One, he bought The Commentator again, paying...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Big Build-Up, with Jason (Long Day's Journey into Night) Robards as a young actor who became the pawn in a big motion-picture producer's gamble (color...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Last Train to Pusan, with Gary Merrill as a prosperous U.S. businessman caught in Korea on the eve of battle (color...