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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...
...bulk of U.S. power from St. Lawrence Seaway project should go to private industry or to public systems. New York's Governor Harriman okayed sale to Reynolds Metals Co. of more than 25% of state's St. Lawrence power, on top of same amount already promised to Alcoa. Reynolds will build $88 million aluminum reduction plant on St. Lawrence near Massena, N.Y., and General Motors will put up aluminum casting foundry there, spur lagging industrialization in the upstate area...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Philip Barry's The Animal Kingdom, with Robert Preston (color...