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...Irwin Carson and Mike Tschudin don't seem to have understood what kind of a show they were writing for. Their few pretty melodies got clobbered. Most of the tunes were too subtle. The one tune I can remember is the title song but I remember liking "Miss America Teen" at the time...
Twain had his circuit circus, Allen a large radio audience. But TV has exposed more Americans than ever before to a steady, if often unsatisfactory, diet of humor. It offers dozens of stand-up comics a month (on such as the Ed Sullivan and Johnny Carson shows), and some 30 situation comedies every week. As the word fun becomes more and more an adjective, the comic is also spilling over into the commercials; where once the pitchman raved supreme, he now adds a light or whimsical touch to ads-in Buster Keaton's Ford-truck plugs, for example...
...purist who demands nothing less than perfection, a good test pattern with which to start the morning is Barbara Walters, comely regular on the Today show. Her skin should be olive, her anchor desk light mahogany. The set is still performing 17 hours later if Johnny Carson signs off sunburned behind a light green desk. For fans who tune in late on thin-skinned shows, color Lassie strawberry blond and Batman's tights puce, his cape true blue...
...convention in Dallas were cheering the revival on. Double-breasted blazers, jackets and topcoats have already become the hottest-selling items in stores across the country. A spruced-up version of the suit (narrower lapels, suppressed waist, 11-in. side vents) is now making its bid in spades. Johnny Carson has sported it on his TV show, and fashion magazines have touted it as the latest chic...
...foot ball coach last week won election as general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...