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...almost a minute the audience applauded in sympathy. Then suave Announcer Hugh Downs took over and nimbly walked a tightrope between gentlemanly criticism of NBC and gentle disagreement with Paar. Comic Orson Bean came on to denounce the "dehumanized" network that had neither "loyalty" nor "guts." Comic Shelley Berman chimed in with a call for Paar's fans to march on Radio City with pitchforks. Later, Bean struggled to get the thing into better perspective. "Listen," he said, "the network doesn't stink as a network. It stinks as a human relationship outfit...
...Fabulous Fifties (CBS, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). A backward look that takes in a talented team of entertainers who lent the decade distinction. Guests include Jackie Gleason, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Shelley Berman, Nichols and May, Photographer Richard Avedon, and the playwriting duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
...pantomime of bare-fanged marriage-they are splendid. Lahr in a plane or at a stage door, Walker in a hash house or the Garden of Eden, also have their moments. But too often, though they make their lines brighter, they cannot make them bright. TV's Shelley Berman does nicely in a character-part telephone monologue, but falls flat as a straight man, and the rest of the show alternates dullness and noise when it does not combine them...
Arthur Smithies, Chairman of the Department, met frequently this summer and again this fall with a Department Committee on Undergraduate Education appointed last spring. Headed by Professor Dunlop, members of the group are Professors Chamberlain, Duesenberry, and Meyer, Assistant Professors Gill and Lefeber, and instructors Baer and Berman...
Other shows revert to reruns; "Smiley's" once-a-week vaudeville simply calls back some of its most interesting stars. This week: Sicknik Comedian Shelley Berman, Opera Star Roberta Peters, Ventriloquist Rickie Layne...