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Score or Drop Out. CBS still has six of the top ten shows, so its loss is not entirely without honor; but where the profits show, in the overall sampling of the total mass of people who watch a given network during a given minute, CBS has lost millions of fans. CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey Jr. has built his success on cold formula: quality be damned, programs either score high ratings or drop out. It would follow that the same criterion might apply to a TV president who lives by such a formula, and rumors are all over...
Berbers Wanted. The network was CBS. There, CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey Jr. is the supreme judge. As Miller draws him, he is a kind of pretty Torquemada. It was Aubrey who conceived the county agent series one day when he leaned back, closed his eyes, and murmured: "I see a man in a dusty pickup in the Southwest." Corporate peasants were left to do the rest, for Aubrey is no writer, just a would-be writer, as Miller describes him. And would-be writers "are like eunuchs in a harem. They see the trick done every night...
Rocky could not overcome that lead, and just 22 minutes after the polls in Southern California closed, CBS-TV programmed its vote-analysis computer and declared Goldwater the winner with 53% of the vote. As of that time, the polling places were still open in northern California, and CBS suffered a few bad moments when the later returns began to arrive and showed Rocky closing the gap and even moving ahead. All the while, NBC, locked in hot competition with CBS, quite nervously stuck by its position that the race was close, and refused to name a winner...
...CBS's East Side, West Side, which, if often nothing else, is a showcase for Actor George C. Scott's considerable talent, will disappear. Some critics cried that "serious drama" was vanishing from TV. Series drama, maybe; but well-written plays have always been tantalizingly rare on TV. CBS-TV President James Aubrey has also axed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, The Garry Moore Show, The New Phil Silvers Show, old Jack Benny, and Danny Thomas (who, like Benny, will bob back on NBC). Judy Garland "resigned" with a moving letter. Meanwhile...
...anyone doubts who runs CBS, the oil-smooth words of CBS-TV's President Aubrey should put the doubts to rest. "Mr. Paley doesn't dictate," says Aubrey. "He leads by persuasion. If you differ with him, by the time you're through talking with him he has indicated how his point of view had more to recommend it than yours...