Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sport takes up a quarter of television's program time, not only because it is good but because most everything else is bad. It is probably the chief reason why television caught on first in the bars & grills. (Quipped Fred Allen: "There are millions of people in New York who don't even know what television is. They are not old enough to go into saloons...
...purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver. The image was becoming clearer...
...Future. Television, predicts NBC's Executive Vice President Frank Mullen, "will be a six-billion-dollar industry, four times as large as radio today." Allen B. Du Mont (who runs the Du Mont network) thinks it will be "one of the first ten U.S. industries in five years...
Radiomen are worried by a recent NBC poll of homes that have both television and radio. Eight times as many people were tuned to a Theatre Guild telecast as were listening to radio's popular Fred Allen. Though some experts are already counting radio out, most think it will survive, if only as an auxiliary arm of television. Best guess: radio will be absorbed into the teleset. And there will still be programs for the 9,300,000 automobile radios, for housewives who are too busy to look, and for the blind...
Died. Viola Allen, 78, turn-of-the-century stage favorite; in Manhattan. She made a hit in Shakespeare in the '80s, eventually played in almost everything, was a Charles Frohman stock company star and leading lady to Joseph Jefferson, retired in 1918 at the height of her popularity...