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Having won $8,000 a fortnight ago, Redmond O'Hanlon, New York cop and student of Shakespeare, returned to CBS-TV's The $64,000 Question and announced that he would risk his winnings for a chance at winning $16,000 and a new home for his five children. The $16,000 question: Give the full names of the two publishers of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays and the year it was published. O'Hanlon looked stunned. His wife bit her lip. After 30 seconds, the scholarly cop answered : Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount...
Harry Truman fussed about what was to be said. Bess Truman fussed about what was to be seen. But daughter Margaret prevailed. Last week, with Ed Murrow covering the British elections, Margaret Truman took over his CBS-TV Person to Person show in Manhattan, and from that distance visited her parents and her home in Independence...
Funnyman Jack Paar appraised Songstress Betty Clooney (sister of Rosemary) with a businesslike eye last week and regretfully decided to drop her from his CBS-TV Morning Show. In her place he hired blonde Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full...
...Millionaire (Wed. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is the kind of sudsy show that would be happier in an afternoon spot than competing for grownups' attention at night. The peculiar theme of the series: an anonymous tycoon has decided to distribute $1,000,000 each week to some member of the deserving poor. So far, all the series has proved is that, if money will not buy happiness, it will at least make a happy sponsor (Colgate-Palmolive...
Without Commercials. Dickens' A Christmas Carol was the broadcasters' favorite holiday show. Radio had at least four versions, including one starring the late Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. For CBS-TV, Playwright Maxwell Anderson and Composer Bernard Herrmann teamed up to produce a musical Christmas Carol. Fredric March harrumphed and hammed as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone clanked and groaned as Marley's ghost and, although there were occasional tuneful moments, most Dickens' fanciers recoiled from the sight of the Spirit-of-Christmas-Present (Ray Middleton) bursting into operetta-like arias. In Manhattan, no viewer had an excuse...