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Official Crackdown. When 25-year-old Trackman Bannister was hustled aboard a plane at London airport under the alias "Richard Bentley," his flight to the U.S. was supposed to be a secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story...
...Preakness (Sat. 5:30 p.m., CBS and CBS-TV...
Kentucky Derby (Sat. 5:15 p.m., CBS and CBS-TV). They're off at Churchill Downs...
ALCOA, which sponsors Edward R. Murrow's See It Now (CBS-TV), is happy over the benefits of Murrow's battle with Senator Joe McCarthy. The show's audience has jumped from 9,000,000 to 30 million, and Alcoa and CBS have received 47,000 letters. Box score: more than four to one in favor of Murrow...
...Philadelphia, a trash collector put CBS-TV's What in the World temporarily off the air. The show, a panel program on which three experts try to identify various articles from museum collections, had to substitute an old kinescope for last week's show when it was discovered that nine valuable museum pieces had vanished from the studios of station WCAU-TV. The articles-a bronze spearhead, a Balinese wood carving, a bronze Indian antelope and some African sculpture-were recovered from a city dump six miles away. Said the trash remover: "I looked over the things after...