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Although three strokes have left her partially paralyzed and barely able to speak, Charley still spends two hours a day painting in her scrupulously neat studio in the Dutch town of Bergen. "I'm never afraid," she says in her painful, halting speech. "Life doesn't interest me. Work interests...
...NBCTV) is an hour-long look at Tenor James Melton juicily singing such chestnuts as My Wild Irish Rose, or walking through a scene from Madame Butterfly. Each musical number is scored, acted and costumed as though it were the finale. Also on hand: Monologist Vera Vague; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Commercials: unobtrusive films of the latest Ford models...
...Disney. The Christmas Day offering was put together by sponsor Coca-Cola in a $150,000 package called One Hour in Wonderland. Filmed in ten days at the Disney Studio in Burbank, Calif., the show had a plot line (a Christmas party on a sound stage), supporting actors (Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Bobby Driscoll), a jazz band and a parcel of applauding teen-agers (including Disney's two daughters, aged...
...airliner flew Bertha and her mother home to Holland. The whole country was agog over their arrival. There were shouts of welcome, chants of "Bertha," government greeters, hard-pressing cameramen and reporters. Through it all, the jungle girl kept a sullen look. At the Hertoghs' festive home town, Bergen op Zoom, Bertha met her brothers & sisters. After a bit, two of her sisters persuaded her to come with them on a balcony and see the townspeople below. She did so. As Bergen op Zoom cheered, Bertha's sullenness gave way to a smile...
...first stole a march on RCA Victor by launching the 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record. At the end of 1948, CBS launched a full-scale talent raid on NBC, and captured such topflight entertainers as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton. Last October, CBS won what seemed at the time to be its biggest victory of all: a 5-to-2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission in favor of CBS's color TV over the rival systems of RCA and California's Color Television Inc. Last week...